Transcript Review on Africa

Review on Africa
Jeopardy Review Game
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Geography
African
Kingdoms
Other
Kingdoms
People
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The four major climate zones of Africa.
What are desert, savanna, rain forest and
Mediterranean?
The largest desert in the world.
What is the Sahara?
Short, grassy plains.
What is a savanna?
The highest mountain in Africa.
What is Mt. Kilimanjaro?
Cause for people migrating throughout Africa.
What is climate change?
Professional storytellers.
Who were griots?
Mali king who made a pilgrimage to Mecca.
Who is Mansa Musa?
Two valuable resources traded by Ghana
middlemen.
What are gold and salt?
Resource used as a medium of exchange like
money.
What is salt?
Oldest known city in sub-Saharan Africa.
What is Jenne-jenno?
A mixture of East African and Muslim culture.
What is Swahili?
Causes for Axum being abandoned.
What is climate change and abandoned trade
routes?
Term for “houses of stone”.
What is Zimbabwe?
Kings of Benin.
Who were the obas?
Religion that was established in Ethiopia under
the Zagwe dynasty.
What is Christianity?
Creator of the kingdom of Mali.
Who is Sundiata?
Mali king under whose rule many followers
converted to Islam.
Who is Mansa Musa?
King of Axum who converted to Christianity.
Who is Ezana?
Zagwe king who built 11 stone churches.
Who is Lalibela?
Leader who Sundiata killed for revenge.
Who is Sumanguru?
Group of languages that was spread by farmers
who left Africa abut 100 B.C.
What is Bantu?
Climate zone that is hot and dry.
What is the desert?
Climate zone with thick vegetation.
What is the rain forest?
Climate zone that is hot in the summer and mild
and rainy in the winter.
What is the Mediterranean?
People who study languages.
Who are linguists?
Term for people of the coast.
What is Swahili?