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Ch. 5 East, Central and Southern Africa: Vocabulary

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

city-state

a)

San Franifornia

b)

a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent nation.

c)

New York, New York

d)

India-Indiana

2.

dhow

a)

a dairy cow.

b)

a relative of dwhen and dwhere and dwho.

c)

a ship with one or two masts, used in the Indian Ocean.

d)

dhow dnow dbrown dcow

3.

hub

a)

the center of an activity, region, or network.

b)

a cool night club

c)

a wheel

d)

a funny looking baseball cap - the hub cap

4.

mariner

a)

🎵no soy marinaro, soy capitan, soy capitan.🎵

b)

a Seattle baseball player

c)

a sailor

d)

a sauce to soak meat in before cooking.

5.

monsoon

a)

a wind that blows only on Mondays.

b)

a seasonal prevailing wind in the region of South and Southeast Asia.

c)

a type of African coin.

d)

mon-soon is the opposite of a mon-later.

6.

Sultan

a)

the Ethiopian word for Sailor.

b)

the Mali word for salt

c)

Sul tan is very similar to a sun tan.

d)

a Muslim ruler or king.

7.

lingua franca

a)

a language that is used as a common language between people who speak different native languages.

b)

French language

c)

Benjamin Franklin's birth name.

d)

a coin equivalent in value to one half of a German frank.

8.

deplete

a)

the opposite of plete.

b)

the amount of something gets dangerously low.

c)

deep pete is shallow pete's brother.

d)

to have too many of something.

9.

migration

a)

movement from one region to another.

b)

movement from the sea to land.

c)

a type of severe headache.

d)

the opposite of hydtation.

10.

tribute

a)

a message deliverer.

b)

a serf or foot soldier.

c)

an act or gift that is intended to show respect.

d)

a stream that flows into a river.

11.

swahili

a)

a game, similar to cricket or baseball.

b)

a Bantu language widely used as a lingua franca in East Africa.

c)

a tribal medic known as a swa-healer.

d)

the opposite of illihaws.

12.

Alfonso I

a)

a ruler of the Kingdom of Kongo from 1509 to 1543.

b)

A Portuguese king.

c)

The grandfather of Alfonso IV

d)

the formal name of 'Big Al.'

13.

Bantu

a)

the tuba player in a band or orchestra.

b)

To be removed or banned from a society.

c)

Ban-tu is the same as ban-usted.

d)

indigenous people of central and southern Africa that speaks a Bantu language.

14.

Kongo

a)

A giant gorilla.

b)

Kon-go is the opposite of Kon-stop.

c)

an indigenous people inhabiting the region of the Congo River in west central Africa.

d)

after a tall soda and a long car ride you Kan-go.

15.

Shona

a)

a member of a group of peoples inhabiting parts of southern Africa.

b)

the moona shona brighta tonighta.

c)

a Native American tribe.

d)

a famous singer and performer.

16.

Kilwa

a)

an electrical term short for kilowatt.

b)

to end the life of a wa.

c)

located in present-day Tanzania, the Kilwa Sultanate stretched the entire length of the Swahili Coast.

d)

a city in Washington state.

17.

Ezana

a)

a type of pasta

b)

the wife of Ezekiel

c)

Ezana of Axum was ruler of the Kingdom of Aksum.

d)

a new type of anime.

18.

Aksum

a)

ak-sum is the total for ak-adding numbers together.

b)

an Inuit tribe in Alaska.

c)

axe-sum is a tool used for chopping sum trees.

d)

he Kingdom of Axum was an ancient kingdom centered in what is now northern Ethiopia.