JEOPARDY

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JEOPARDY

• Africa and the Americas

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Categories
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Africa
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Geography
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People
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African Kingdoms
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Native Americans
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Vocabulary
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These are the four main rivers of Africa.
What are the Zambezi, Zaire or Congo, the Niger,
and the Nile?
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This is the African language that originated in
the southeastern part of Africa 2000 years ago
and spread throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
What is Bantu?
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This is the valley that runs through the horn of
Africa from the Nile to Lake Malawi.
What is the Great Rift Valley?
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These are the two cultures Asian and African that
scholars have determined exchanged goods, and
ideas around 300 A.D.
What are East Africa and Indonesia ?
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These are the four modern areas of Africa that
have a gradually sloping shoreline as opposed to
the steep cliffs of most of coastal Africa.
What are Ghana, Liberia, the Ivory Coast in the
west and Mozambique in the east?
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These are the the two highest mountains in Africa.
What are Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mt. Kenya?
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These are the tips or Capes of South America and
Africa.
What are Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope?
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These mountains are the spine of North and South
America.
What are the Rocky Mountains and the Andes
Mountains?
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This is the narrow gap between continents, that
was once covered with ice, and served as a land
bridge from Asia to the Americas.
What is the Bering Strait?
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Dont Choke!
Daily Double
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These are the two large deserts of Africa.
What are the Sahara and the Kalahari Deserts?
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He was the King of Axum who defeated the kingdom
of Cush and established Christianity as the
religion in 325 A.D.
Who was King Ezana?
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He was the famous Muslim geographer and world
traveler of the 1300s.
Who was Ibn Battuta ?
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He was the king of Mali who made a pilgrimage to
Mecca with so much wealth that he weakened the
value of gold in Asia and Europe.
Who was Mansa Musa?
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This is the Songhai ruler who captured the city
of Tombouctou in 1468.
Who was Sunni Ali?
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These African people built the Great Zimbabwe.
Who were the Karanga people?
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These were the three African kingdoms of Western
Africa
What were the Mali, Ghana and the Songhai
kingdoms
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This is the language and culture of eastern
Africa coast, a combination of Bantu, Persian and
Arabic.
What was Swahili?
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This is the African kingdom that reached its
height from 250 B.C to A.D. 150 and conquered
Egypt.
What was the Kingdom of Cush?
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This city was the Mali capital and a center of
Muslim learning.
What was Tombouctou?
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This was the capital and important trading city
of the Songhai kingdom.
What was Gao?
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Dont Choke!
Daily Double
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They were the Native Americans of the southwest
who built their dwellings of sun dried bricks or
adobe.
Who were the Pueblo?
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These three Native American groups preceded the
Incas and the Aztecs.
Who were the Olmecs, Chavin and Toltecs?
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They were the Native Americans of the Yucatan
Peninsula who developed a sophisticated calendar
and counting system based on 20 that included 0.
Who were the Mayans?
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He was the feathered serpent God of both the
Aztecs and Toltecs.
Who was Quetzalcoatl?
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These two cities were important in Incan culture,
one hidden deep in the Andes and the other city
the capital meaning city of the Sun
What are Machu Pichu and Cuzco ?
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These were the floating islands that the Aztecs
used to grow food and support a population in the
millions at the time of the Spanish arrival in
the Americas.
What were Chinampas?
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This the tradition in many African and Native
American cultures of tracing the ancestry through
the mothers.
What is matrilineal or a matrilineal society?
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These are the areas of the world that receive
more than 100 inches of rain each year.
What are tropical rain forests?
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This was the Incan knotted string used to
remember important events.
What was quipu?
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These professionals study the history and
traditions of languages.
What are lingiuists?