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What is the world's largest desert?
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Sahara
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What is the world's largest desert?
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Sahara
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What is the Ancient Kingdom located along the fertile land of the upper Nile?
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Nubia
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What is the Kingdom of the Soninke People located between the Niger and Sengal rivers?
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Ghana
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What is the center of traade and learning in Mali?
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Timbuktu
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What is the capital of Songhai?
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Gao
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What is the kingdom in the rain forests of the Guinea coast?
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Benin
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What is the Cristian kindom in the mountains of East Africa?
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Axum
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What is the capital of inland empire whose name means "Great stone buildings"?
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Zimbabwe
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Define: desertification
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Process by which fertile or semi-desert land becomes desert.
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Define: griot
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Professional storyteller in East Africa.
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Define: lineage
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Group claiming a common ancestor.
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Define: mansa
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Mansa (Musa) Kings.
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Define: savanna
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Grassy plain with irregular patterns of rainfall.
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Who was Augustine? What did he do?
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He was the most influential christian thinker and he was the bishop of Hippo.
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Who was Lalibela? What did he do?
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He was the KIng of Ethiopia and had a dozen churches carved into mountains.
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Who was Piankhi? What did he do?
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He was the Nubian King who conqured Egypt.
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Who was Sonni Ali? What did he do?
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He brought key trade routes and wealthy cities like Timbuktu.
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Who was Sundiata? What did he do?
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He was a brilliant military leader.
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The Nubian capital of Meroe was an important producer of ________.
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Iron ore
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What did King Ezana of Axum strengthen ties with the Mediterranean world?
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Christianity
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Slash-and-burn agriculture represents an adaptation to the environment.
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Yup.
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What group of people developed expert knowledge of the natural world by adapting to life in the Kalahari?
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The Khoisan people.
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In a patrilineal culture kinship ties cames through the _______ side.
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Father's
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The griots of West Africa preserved _______ traditions.
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history and traditional folk tale
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Who set up a Muslim dynasty in Songhai?
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Asika Muhammad
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The kingdom of _______ had a port on the Red Sea.
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Axum
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_______ was the ruler who made a hajj that resulted in trading and diplomatic ties between Mali and other Muslim states.
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Mansa Musa
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Axum prospered partly because it had a port on the _______.
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Red Sea
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_______ was the religious tradition that the Axumites passed on to the Ethiopians.
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Christianity
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How did the Khoisan people adapt to the Kalahari environment?
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They gathered edible plants and herbs and hunted small game.
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_______ is when people trace their inheritance and descent through their mother's side.
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Matrilineal
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"And when he sits before the people, he puts on a high capdecorated with gold and wrapped in turbans of fine cotton." Which kingdom, whose ruler is described in the quote above was called, "Land of gold"?
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Ghana
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"The man spread upon Cario the flood of his generosity." Whose visit to Egypt on the way to Mecca is described in the quote above?
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Mansa Musa
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_______ is where Christian churches were carved into the mountains?
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Ethiopia
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Griots strengthened West African societies by _______.
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They fostered a sence of community and common values amoung peoples of Africa.
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Describe the results of Mansa Musa's hajj.
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Mansa Musa showed his devotion to Islam, forged new trading and diplomatic ties with Muslim states, returned home with scholars and artists, and showed word of Mali's great wealth.
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