6th Grade Ch. 11 Civilizations of Africa

What is the largest desert in Africa and in the world?

• Songhai
• the Sahara
• the savanna
• Swahili

The Bantu-speaking people migrated because they were looking for ?

• better farmland and better grazing.  
• better weather conditions.  
• gold and salt. 
• the coast, so that they could trade.  

What did the Bantu-speaking people spread across Africa as they migrated?

• Christianity.
• bronze making skills.
• Islam.  
• their language and culture.

What item did the people of West Africa usually trade to get salt?

• bronze
• water
• gold
• silk

? is a mass movement of people.  

• City-state
• Clan
• Migration
• Swahili

? is a group of families who trace their roots to the same ancestor.

• Aksum
• Clan
• Ghana
• Mali

? is a city that is also a separate, independent state.  

• City-state
• Swahili
• Migration
• Aksum

? is an area of gently rolling land covered by grasses.  

• Savanah
• Mali
• Plateau
• Savanna

? is Bantu language with Arabic words, spoken along the East African coast.  

• Bantu-ta
• Swahili
• Aksum
• Islamic

Most of the gold that was brought to the Swahili city-states came from ?

• Great Zimbabwe.  
• Ethiopia.
• Kenya.
• Portugal.