AP African American Studies Quiz 1

This ancient east African kingdom was the first to adopt Christianity and had its own currency. It coins have been discovered in India.

• Egypt

• Axum

• Nubia/Kush

• Ghana

This was the trade network across northern and central Africa.

• The Golden Sands

• The Silk Road

• Columbian Exchange

• trans-Saharan

This empire was ruled by Mansa Musa. It was at the nexus of a trade network and was extremly wealthy.

• Axum

• Ghana

• Egypt

• Mali

This geographic feature is a strip of semi-arid land that divides the desert from the rainforests.

• The Great Plains

• the Sahara

• the Sahel

• the Savanna

The dispersion of people from their homeland to another place

• banishment

• diaspora

• syncretic

• nomadic

Where is the Niger River?

• E

• F

• H

• G

Which letter shows the Sahara Desert?

• A

• K

• I

• E

Which letter shows Madagascar?

• A

• K

• J

• I

Where is the Nile River?

• F

• H

• G

• E

In which area would you find the kingdoms of Ghana, Mali and Songhai?

• A

• I

• E

• K