World History 8

In southern Africa,

%Christianity survived in the mountains in the south until recent times.%

About ____ years ago, Homo sapiens sapiens began to spread out across Eurasia.

50,000

Swahili civilization was based on a mixture of native African and ____ cultures.

Arab

Which of the following statements about the Sahara Desert is true?

At one point, it was an area that was green and flourishing with life.

The ancient civilization that was located in the highlands of what is known today as Ethiopia was

Axum

What was the ancient African kingdom that claimed to be descended from the Arabian kingdom of Saba (or Sheba)?

Axum

The family of languages spoken by people who inhabit the region south of the Sahara Desert and Axum is

Bantu.

Bronze heads sculptures and relief plaques depicting West African court life were created in

Benin.

All of the following statements about the arrival of Islam in Africa are true except

Berber resistance blocked Arab expansion to the westward continental limits until after 1200.

The people of North Africa, who served as trade intermediaries for the great trans-Saharan commerce, were the

Berbers.

Mali was all EXCEPT:

Famous for marble architecture and mosaics

In regard to state building in West Africa, it can be said that

Ghana was the first great commercial state there.

Karl Mauch found the ruins of

Great Zimbabwe

The medieval age's greatesttraveler was:

Ibn Battuta

Which of the following is not a valid observation about the ancient civilization of the Kush?

It spread its empire to the north by driving the Romans out of Egypt.

Which of the following states developed in the center of Africa?

Luba

Which state developed in the southern half of Africa?

Luba

A(n) ____ settlement was established on the island of Madagascar in the early first millennium C.E.

Malay

The Epic of Son-Jara tells the story of the founder and ruler of

Mali.

The well-known African city of Marrakech is located in which country?

Morocco

Axum in modern Ethiopia was all EXCEPT:

NOT Home of over 100 huge vertical pillars of sykenite complete with windows and door frames erected in honor of the kings, taller than any other monoliths crafted in the ancient world

The San

NOT was the largest tribal grouping in West Africa.

Nubians were all EXCEPT:

NOT when Egypt became weak from invasions by Libyan tribes, the Kushite king invades Egypt in the name of the Egyptian god, Amun, as a holy war to re-establish the worship of Amun.

The African Nok culture which is remembered for its early, sophisticated sculptures was located in the ____ region.

Niger River

The great river that dominates the western region of Africa, the so-called "hump of Africa," is the

Niger.

Ibn Yasin was a Berber from the Judala tribe in the Sahara who in the 1040's did all EXCEPT:

Practiced and taught celibacy for greater spirituality

What was true of African building materials during the first millennium C.E.?

Stone was increasingly used in West Africa during in the first millennium C.E.

The Garamantes

built complex irrigation systems

The term "Zanj" refers to the "____" of the indigenous population of East Africa.

burnt skin

The trading cities of East Africa imported porcelain from

china

Music in African societies

employed various musical instruments, including the harp, bells, and the xylophone.

The Kingdom of Ghana

exported gold, leather goods, slaves, and ostrich feathers.

African art

includes the impressively crafted, mortar-less structures at Great Zimbabwe.

The city of Meroë was located near extensive ____ deposits.

iron

A unique aspect of the ancient Ethiopian civilization was the fact that

it adopted the form of Christianity practiced in Egypt.

The following were true about the trans-Sahara caravan trade except

it brought the first Islamic traders to central Africa in the first century BCE

All of the following were true about the southern African state of Zimbabwe except

it played no significant role in the gold trade with the Swahili states to the east.

All of the following are correct about the land of Zanj except

it was ruled by the Zagwe and Azim dynasties for 400 years.

The Kingdom of Mali

maintained a very active pro-Islamic policy under Mansa Musa.

The local chieftain of a Mali farming village was called a

mansa.

Agriculture first emerged in ____ Africa.

northern

African music

produced a totality of music in its combination of voice and instrument sounds.

In the states of West Africa, the focal point of the major towns was the

royal precinct.

The vast grasslands that border the great desert region of the Sahara are known as

savannahs.

If one traveled south from the grasslands of central Africa, one would reach

some of the world's richest deposits of minerals.

The original reason for the rise of the kingdom of Ghana was

the role it played in the gold trade.

Slavery in Africa

went back to ancient times, long before the arrival of the Europeans.

The "Hump of Africa" refers to the

westernmost grasslands and tropical forests that border on the Atlantic Ocean.