Ancient African Civilization

What skills did the Bantu spread through Africa?

• farming and iron-working

• pottery making and mining

• weapon making and warfare

• banking and trade

The slave trade increased as Africa’s contact with whom increased?

• Bantus

• Muslims

• non-Muslims

• Songhai

What was an early African art form?

• carved wooden face masks

• bead work

• jewelry making

• kora making

Mansa Musa traveled with 80 camels and two tons of gold on his trip to what city?

• Ghana

• Makkah

• Timbuktu

• Zimbabwe

What major crop did the Portuguese produce using enslaved people from Africa?

• bananas

• coffee

• sugarcane

• tea

Songs sung by enslaved Africans

• connected them to their homeland

• have not survived

• were banned by the Portuguese

• were taken from European music.

According to the chart, which kingdom traded enslaved people?

• Axum

• Ghana

• Mali

• Songhai

Many African dance rituals celebrated

• deeds of famous heroes

• eras of history

• stages of life

• the Bantu's migration

Families made up of several generations were?

• matrilineal

• extended families

• oral history

• clan

Stories passed down by mouth from generation to generation were?

• matrilineal

• extended families

• oral history

• Swahili