Chapter 13 Africa

Africa south of the desert is known as

• Sub-Sahara

• Sub-Sahel

• Sub-Sahel

• Sub-Savannah

Father, mother, children, & close relatives living under one roof is called a(n)

• nuclear family

• single-parent family

• extended family

• age-set

Hand-woven, brightly covered cloth popular in Africa

• denim

• kente

• brocade

• Silk

Askia the Great helped education grow in this kingdom

• Ghana

• Mali

• Songhai

• Great Zimbabwe

Short saying of wisdom or truth

• epic

• proverb

• age-set

• poem

A spoken record of past of events is called

• handwritten history

• traditional history

• printed history

• oral history

Some reasons this empire declined was due to an internal rebellion and overgrazing

• Ghana

• Mali

• Songhai

• Great Zimbabwe

This poem tells the history of Ghana

• The Sundiata

• The Tale of Gengi

• The Epic of Kings

• The Dausi

Almoravids are best described as

• Christian North Africans

• Muslim North Americans

• Christian North Americans

• Muslim North Africans

A group of family born within the same 2-3 years of each other

• extended family

• proverb

• age-set

• griot