G-4./13: The Kingdoms of Africa

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G-3/24: The Kingdoms of Africa

By Ben Katagiri

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The three most influential kingdoms of West Africa were...

• Ghana

• Mali

• Egypt

• Songhai

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The traditional religion of Animism believes...

• Objects in nature have souls or spirits

• In worship of of Mohammad

• All animals go to heaven

• In the Eight-fold Path of Islam

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Some Sub-Saharan people were polytheistic. They Practiced _________, a religion in which spirits exist in nature & play a role in daily life.

• Animism
• Sikhism
• Islam
• Buddhism

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Characteristics include Creation stories Kings are seen as gods, praying and revering deceased relatives, and rituals including art, music, fire, dance, food, drink, charms and amulets.

• Traditional Ancestral Worship

• Relic worship

• Amulets

• Islam

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The Chinese believed that their ancestors would guide and protect them if they practiced?

• Ancestor Worship
• Telling the future with oracle bones
• Lived a good life

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Which religious belief is shared by the followers of Shinto in Japan and of animism in Africa?

• aging holy wars is an appropriate way to spread religious beliefs.

• Social status in a subsequent life depends on behavior in this life.

• Only one universal, all-powerful God exists.

• Spirits are found in all natural things.

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Which of these are monotheistic religions? Check all that apply

• Islam

• Judaism

• Christianity

• Buddhism

• Animism

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What were the two most prominent religions within West Africa?

• Animism and Judaism

• Christianity and Islam

• Islam and animism

• Hinduism and Christianity

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How did Islam first reach and spread in West Africa?

• The angel Gabriel brought the Qu'ran to the Mali Empire

• The Berbers and missionaries traveling with them spread Islam as they traded with West Africa

• The Umayyads conquered West Africa

• The Abbasids conquered West Africa

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What natural resource in West Africa was valued as much as gold?

• Salt

• Iron

• Ivory

• Kola nuts

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This map shows countries in Africa that practice Islam. How could the physical geography of Africa explain why Islam did not spread into Southern Africa?

• The climate of Central Africa is not conductive to Islam due to is high temperatures and dry, stale air

• Mountains in Central Africa blocked the diffusion of Islam to the south

• The Sahara and the Congo Rainforest formed a barrier that blocked diffusion of Islam from the North to South

• Travel down the Nile River is risky so Muslims did not use it to travel South because of the few cataracts

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The gold-salt trade increased ____________ with Muslim merchants in North & West Africa

• Cultural Diffusion
• Tension
• Hatred
• Tolerance

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The most important West African city, for trade and education, was

• Timbuktu
• Cairo
• Gao
• Rome

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From the 1000s CE through the 1400s CE, which of these goods would have been LEAST likely to have traveled out of western Africa towards the east along the trans-Saharan trade route?

• gold
• salt
• silver
• slaves

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The gold-salt trade connected ________& _________ Africa

• North & West
• North & South
• East & West
• West & South

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The Ghana Empire (800s-1000s CE) grew rich from trading gold and salt in which trading network?

• Silk Roads
• Trans-Saharan
• Trans-Atlantic
• Mediterranean Route

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Great leader of Mali famous for his hajj (pilgrimage) to the Muslim holy city of Mecca

• Mansa Musa
• Sundiata
• Songhai
• Benin

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The trade of which two products shaped the early history of North and West Africa?

• ivory and salt
• salt and gold
• silk and gold
• spices and ivory

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The kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, & Songhai prospered primarily due to their 

• exchanges with Indian ports
• direct access to the Arabian Sea
• control of trade routes
• abundance of diamonds