AFRICAN KINGDOMS

Chapter 7World History/Geography

TRUE OR FALSE?

Kush declined because of the rise of Axum.

True.

TRUE OR FALSE?

Axum had peaceful relations with its Muslim neighbors for hundreds of years.

True

What was the first great West African trading state?

Ghana.

Songhai was invaded by the forces of the sultan of what country?

Morocco

TRUE OR FALSE?

Women were the dominant force in African village life.

FALSE.

TRUE OR FALSE?

Swahili was a mixture of Bantu and Indian.

FALSE.

After ____, Africa is the largest of the continents.

a. Asiab. Europec. North American d. South America

A. Asia

Axum owed much of its prosperity toa. King Zambezib. Its waterc. Its export of bananasd. Its location along the Red Sea

D. Its location along the Red Sea

The Berber camel caravans became known asa. “thirsty people”b. “fleets of the desert”c. “masters of the sand”d. “backbone of trade”

B. “fleets of the desert”

Mali was established by this ruler.

Sundiata Keita

Descent was traced through the mother.

Matrilineal

A ____is a group of independent villages organized by clans and led by a local ruler or clan head.

a. Renegade societyb. Kilwac. Stateless societyd. Bantu

C. Stateless society

The Bantu communities were based ona. Subsistence farming which meant they grew

crops for personal use, not for trade.b. The transport of goods by camel caravans

across the deserts between trading cultures.c. Gold miningd. The fundamentals of Christianity, which they

learned from shipwrecked Syrian sailors.

A. Subsistence farming

The ___is the largest desert on Earth.

Sahara

What was the official religion of Axum?

Christianity

The people of Ghana often traded their gold fora. Iron,b. Salt,c. Camels,d. peanuts

B. salt

Islam was slow to spread in East Africa becausea. Most of the cultures there lacked a written

languageb. Many of Islam’s beliefs conflicted with

traditional African beliefs and customs.c. Few Muslim traders could speak Arabicd. Those who tried to convert Africans to Islam

were often thought to be evil and were killed

B. Conflicted with traditional African beliefs and customs.

Axum was founded as a colony ofa. Persiansb. Arabsc. Phoeniciansd. Romans

B. Arabs

The language family of farming peoples who moved east was

a. Bantub. Swahilic. Kilwad. Ghana

A. Bantu

All of the following are eastern African port cities EXCEPT

a. Mogadishub. Mombasac. Timbuktud. Kilwa

C. Timbuktu

From about 1300 to 1450, the most powerful state in southern Africa was

a. Zimbabweb. Timbuktuc. Bantud. Ghana

A. Zimbabwe

What modern state in Africa was home to the Axum civilization?

Ethiopia

Who conquered the Kush in 663 B.C.E?

The Assyrians

What city in western Africa was recognized as one of the intellectual capitals of the Muslim world?

Timbuktu

Which of the following was not considered an accomplishment of Mansa Musa?

a. He defeated the son of Sunni Alib. He doubled the size of the kingdom.c. He created a strong central governmentd. He divided the kingdom into provinces ruled

by governors whom he appointed.

a. He defeated the son of Sunni Ali

Trading merchants of Ghana often became wealthy. Kings prospered because they imposed ___on goods that ___or___the kingdom.

Taxes; entered; left