Unit 1 Origins of Africa Review

This person faught the Portuguese using guerilla style warfare for 30 years to save her kingdom.

• King Afronso I

• Queen Njinga

• Queen Idia

• Mansa Musa

This was the name of the trade network that linked North Africa, East African and West and Central Africa during the Medieval Era.

• The Trans-Saharan Route

• The Oregon Trail

• The Silk Road

• the Swahili Coast

Select all the bodies of water that border the continent of Africa

• The Red Sea

• The Atlantic Ocean

• The Indian Ocean

• The Mediterranean Sea

• The Pacific Ocean

This group is responsible for the spreading of their language to most of Central, eastern and South African.

• The Nok

• The Kogolese

• The Bantu

• The Songhai

This west African nation voluntarily converted to Catholicism after exposure to the Portuguese in 1483

• The Bantu

• The Kingdom of Kongo

• The Kingdom of Ndongo

• Benin

This East African river served as the home base of two of the earliest civilizations in the world--The Egyptians and the Nubians. What is that river?

• The Congo

• The Nile

• The Amazon

• The Niger

This is the number of climate regions in Africa. This makes it one of the most diverse continents.

• 3

• 5

• 20

• 1

The term diaspora means

• to banish someone from their home.

• a storyteller/historian who preserves a society's culture.

• a group of people who roam from place to place following their animals

• the dispersion of a group of people from one area of the world to another.

Africa is the ___________ largest continent in the world.

• 1st

• 2nd

• 3rd

• 7th

This animal made the trans-Saharan trading network possible.

• horses

• camels

• elephants

• giraffs