Sub-Saharan Africa: History

Sometime after the agricultural revolution, around 2000 BC, one of the greatest migrations in human history began - the ____________ migration.

• Huang He

• Zulu

• Bantu

The Bantu had knowledge of ____________ working, and their use of_____________ weapons gave them an advantage over other tribal groups.

• bronze

• iron

• copper

______________ is one of the best-known of the surviving Bantu languages. For more than 5 million people, this is the language they learn as children, or their first language.

• Ku

• Swahili

• Shinto

Beginning in the early 19th century, Arab trade _________________ - groups of merchants traveling together for safety - traveled farther into the interior of Africa, spreading Swahili to more people.

• expeditions

• caravans

• trailers

Today, many areas in Africa have two groups of people with different first languages. In these areas, Swahili is frequently spoken by both groups as a way to communicate. As a result, Swahili is the _______________, or common language between multiple groups of people.

• first language

• second language

• lingua franca

The promise of valuable trade goods brought Arab traders to a transportation corridor from North Africa to West Africa. This ____________________, or trade across the Sahara, introduced Africans to the Islamic religion, which spread from the Arabian peninsula beginning in the 8th century AD.

• trans-Atlantic

• pan-Atlantic

• trans-Saharan

Which West African kingdom actively traded with European countries such as Portugal and the Netherlands?

• Kongo

• Benin

• Mail

The powerful East African empire of _________ was located in present-day Ethiopia, flourishing between 300 and 600 AD.

• Aksum

• Songhai

• Ghana

Founded in 1390 AD, which central African state became known for its highly-organized government?

• Kongo

• Great Zimbabwe

• Ghana

Between 1200 and 1450 AD, the Shona people in Southern Africa built a walled city out of stone, called _____________________.

• Ghana

• Mali

• Great Zimbabwe