Social Studies - Chapter 2 Review
Civilizations of Africa
Section A: (8 matching for vocabulary terms - 24 points)
Be sure to know definitions for: Extra Credit -
Be sure to know definitions for: Extra Credit -
- clan -If the student creates notecards with these
- oasis words on one side and the definition on the
- migration other side, 5/100 points will be added to test.
- savanna -If the student writes out the responses to the
- silent barter three short answer questions in Section C
- province below, with the page numbers where they found
- city-state the information, 5/100 points will be added too.
- Swahili
- The Bantu migrations lasted for about _________ years.
- The two most important products that were traded in West Africa were gold and _______.
- With the help of a Muslim architect, Mansa Musa built the city called ______________.
- Cut off from the rest of the world, the Ethiopians developed their own form of ____________.
- The Bantu-speaking people probably began to migrate because of _____________ growth.
- One sign of the ___________ influence in Mali was mosques.
- During the A.D. 300s, the official religion of Aksum became _________________.
- Most of the gold that was brought to the Swahili city-states came from around Great _________________.
- Mansa Musa wanted Tombouctou to be a leading center Muslim ______________.
- The Bantu-speaking people spread their language and _________ across Africa as they migrated.
- The largest desert in Africa and in the world is the ____________.
- The people who finally drove the rulers of Aksum from the coast of Africa were ______________ traders.
- Muslim scholars in the empire of Mail taught students to read (Swahili/the Quran).
- Historians study the _________ migrations by examining where Bantu-speakers live today.
- Africa’s rain forests are located on either side of the (Equator/Sahara).
- What happened when the Bantu-speaking people moved into areas with people already living there? How did the Bantu-speaking people have to change the way they lived? How did the people living there learn from the Bantu-speaking people? (6 points)
- Name three civilizations in West Africa that grew prosperous. How did all three expand their civilizations? What was the major force behind this expansion? (5 points)
- How was Ethiopia established? where did the people of Ethiopia begin? Who drove them out of their homeland? How did the geographical location of Ethiopia result in a special form of a religion? (5 points)