Review on Africa

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Review on Africa

• Jeopardy Review Game

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