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What is the Sahara?
The largest desert in the
world.
Row 1, Col 1
What is Northern Africa
The area of Africa where
the Sahara Desert is
located.
2,1
What is the Death Road?
The name of the Trade
Route across the Sahara
Desert.
3,1
What is Death?
Getting lost in the Sahara
meant this.
4,1
Who is Hans Vischer?
The man who made a
route across the Sahara
desert in 1906.
5,1
What is the National Honor of the Trousers?
This reward was given to
heroic soldiers in Mali.
1,2
Who was Sundiata Kieta?
He was a great warriorking who seized Ghana.
2,2
What is a Plateau?
An area of high, flat land.
3,2
What is a Savannah?
An area where there is…
High Temperatures,
Uneven rainfall, and is
perfect for raising herd
animals.
4,2
What is Gold and Salt?
African empires grew rich
from trading these two
things.
5,2
Who are the Berbers?
In 400BC this group of
people found a way to
cross the Sahara Desert
1,3
Who is the Romans?
This group of people
introduced the camel to
North Africa
2,3
What is the African Plateau?
The Sahara, rain forests
and savannas are all on
this.
What is horses and donkeys?
Before using camels, the
Berbers used these
animals, which often died
in the harsh conditions of
the desert.
4,3
What is it became poorer over time?
This happened to Ghana’s
farmland because of heavy
farming and overuse.
5,3
What is Ghana?
This was the first African
empire to grow out of
trade.
1,4
What is MALI ?
This kingdom conquered
Ghana in1240 and
expanded the territory
2,4
What is Axum?
A city-state in Ethiopia.
3,4
What is Songhai?
In the 1500’s this empire took
over Timbuktu and the
Berbers’ salt mines and control
of the trade on the Niger River.
They became the largest
empire in West Africa.
4,4
What is a warm, wet climate ideal for farming?
The farming advantages of
living near the equator.
5,4
What is traditional African religion?
African people in the
countryside usually
practice this type of
religion.
1,5
What is they believed in one supreme being?
Traditional African religions
shared this belief with
Christians, Jews, and
Muslims.
2,5
Who is Mansa Musa?
The Sultan of Mali who
traveled to Makkah in 1324
3,5
What is 1000’s of people, 100 camels, and lots of GOLD.
Mansa Musa took with him
this on his trip to Mecca.
4,5
Who are Great Muslim Architects, Teachers, and Writers?
Mansa Musa convinced
these to come back with
him to Mali.
5,5
What is the Nile?
Africa’s longest river.
1,6
What is “People of the Coast”?
The word Swahili comes
from Arabic meaning this.
2,6
What is African and Muslim?
The Swahili culture and
language are a blend of
these two cultures.
3,6
What is sugarcane?
This was the major crop
that the Portuguese
produced using enslaved
Africans.
4,6
What were the Bantu?
These were fishing groups
that migrated throughout
Africa around 3000BC.
5,6
What is a Griot?
This is a story teller who
passes down the history of
a people.
1,7
What is the Family?
This formed the basis of
African Society.
2,7
Who is Queen Nzinga?
This queen battled the
Portuguese slave traders.
3,7
Who are the Portuguese?
These people were the first
to enslave Africans and
take them to other places.
4,7
What is the African Diaspora?
This is the spread of the
African people and culture
around the world.
5,7