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.
