Question

What are the six major rivers that flow in Africa?


Which is the longest?


How was the Rift Valley formed?


What mountain in Africa remains ice-capped all year long?


Was the Sahara a desert in 2000 BCE? How do we know this?


What is a griot? What was her/his place in African society?


Name three major languages spoken in the African regional civilizations.


What was the Kush Kingdom's capital?


Where was the city of Meroë and what natural resource did it produce?


What modern African nation traces its Christian culture back to Axum?


Where in Africa did people build their houses out of salt?


In which African civilization was salt worth its weight in gold?


Where was the Kingdom of Ghana and why did the Almoravids launch a war against Ghana?


What people formed the powerful kingdom of Mali?


What did Mansu Musa give to the people of Cairo when he visited there?


What was Timbuktu best known for under the rule of the Songhai?


What two foreign trading partners made East Africa a center of international commerce?

Answer 1

1. What are the six major rivers that flow in Africa?

Niger, Nile, Congo, Orange, Limpopo, and Zaire

2.The Nile

3.How was the Rift Valley formed?  

A rift valley is formed when two adjacent geologic plates separate and move away form each other.

4.What mountain in Africa remains ice-capped all year long?  

Mt. Kilamajaro

5.  Was the Sahara a desert in 2000 BCE? How do we know this?

The Sahara began to turn into a desert in 4000 B.C.

6. What is a griot? What was her/his place in African society?

Griots were/are masters of words and music.The male griots and female griottes were historians, genealogists.

7.  Where was the city of Meroë and what natural resource did it produce?

by nubia

8. ?

9.   Where in Africa did people build their houses out of salt?

There are some buildings made out of salt rock flat areas of South Africa, but no communities where all of them are.

10. Where was the Kingdom of Ghana and why did the Almoravids launch a war against Ghana?

west part they had the resource of slat

11.What people formed the powerful kingdom of Mali?

the empire was formed by sundiata keita

12.  traded gold for souvenirs. It was reported that he built a mosque every Friday.

13. Emperor Toure eventually made Songhai the largest state in African history with Timbuktu as its capital\

14. The European Union and The Unites States