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Chapter 8 Africa History and Vocab

Total questions: 39

Worksheet time: 31mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Enough for a particular requirement

(a)  

2.

The land included within a set of boundaries

(a)  

3.

A group of people descended from the same ancestor

(a)  

4.

A group of people with common interests and values living in an area; people living in a particular area; an area

(a)  

5.

Connection or communication; interaction with other people

(a)  

6.

To accept a new belief; to bring from one belief to another

(a)  

7.

A family made up of several generations

(a)  

8.

To assure the fulfillment of a condition

(a)  

9.

To keep in the same state

(a)  

10.

Tracing descendants through mothers rather than fathers

(a)  

11.

Stories passed down from generation to generation

(a)  

12.

An area of high and mostly flat land

(a)  

13.

A flat grassland, sometimes with scattered trees, in a tropical subtropical region

(a)  

14.

A grassy plant that is a natural source of sugar

(a)  

15.

To continue to live; to live through a dangerous event; to continue to function or prosper

(a)  

16.

A gospel song

(a)  

17.

A member of a Bantu-speaking people of Zanzibar and the adjacent cost

(a)  

18.

Traditional storyteller

(a)  

19.

To transfer or carry from one place to another

(a)  

20.

One of a kind; different from all others

(a)  

21.

Which of these was not a geographical zone of Africa?

a)

Savanna

b)

Mountains

c)

Mediterranean

d)

Sahel

22.

What two geographic zone covers the most land

a)

Mediterranean, Sahel

b)

Mountains, Desert

c)

Sahel, Rainforest

d)

Desert, Savanna

23.

What was Islam used for in Africa?

a)

prosperity and new things

b)

New laws

c)

Trade

d)

Allis

e)

None of the Above

24.

Extended families were also a part of another group called a Lineage group. What is a Lineage Group?

a)

A group of people that trace back family roots to one common ancestor.

b)

A group of relatives that traveled together across the Sahara Desert

c)

A group of people that work to help build mosques for younger generations.

d)

None of the Above

25.

Which of these objects did people in Africa not trade?

a)

Salt

b)

Pottery

c)

Gold Jewelry

d)

Cattle

e)

None of the above

26.

What was the main thing people in Africa traded?

a)

Gold

b)

Salt

c)

Fish

d)

Pottery

e)

None of the Above

27.

What part of Africa is the Sahara Desert located in?

a)

North

b)

South

c)

East

d)

West

e)

Central

28.

Whos Government was Ghana's most like?

a)

Rome

b)

Songhai

c)

Mali

d)

None of the Above

29.

What did Ghana's government have?

a)

Ministers

b)

Advisers

c)

Built on political Traditions

d)

Divided Into Provinces

e)

None of the Above

30.

Who were the Bantu people?

a)

Migrants from North Africa

b)

People who shared similar languages, cultures, and technologies

c)

People who moved to Asia from Africa

d)

None of the Above

e)

All of the Above

31.

Islam completely took over Africa and Kings forced people to convert for trade and allyship.

a)

True

b)

False

32.

How did Mali fall?

a)

Mansa Musa's death in 1337

b)

Taken over by North Africa

c)

A civil war in 1359

d)

None of the Above

33.

How did Songhai fall?

a)

Taken over by South Africa in 1550

b)

Invaded by people from Morocco in 1600

c)

Rebellion in 1588

d)

None of the Above

34.

What people believe in a supreme god whose sons were lesser gods?

a)

Muslims

b)

Ghana people

c)

Ashanti people

d)

None of the Above

e)

All of the Above

35.

What culture did Mansa Musa encourage?

a)

Muslim

b)

African

c)

Swahili

d)

None of the Above

36.

Who was the Arab lawyer from Morocco that came to Africa to see the Muslim world?

(a)  

37.

What did Mansa Musa NOT BRING on his journey?

a)

80 camels

b)

2 tons of golds

c)

Islam scholars

d)

All of the Above

e)

None of the Above

38.

Who did Muhammad Ture/Askia Muhammad become king in place of?

a)

Sunni Ali's son

b)

Sunni Ali

c)

Ibn Battuta

d)

Mansa Musa

e)

None of the Above

39.

How was the slave trade practiced in Africa?

a)

People were evaluated to become slaves that were used mainly as soldiers

b)

Bantu people captured people to use as servants, laborers, or soldiers

c)

Rulers took men from their families to use for servants

d)

None of the Above