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| What originally caused the rise of Ghana? |
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| Its middleman role in the Gold Trade. |
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| Giant stone pillars that marked the Axum kings buriel ground. |
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| What country is believed to have been the home to the early predecessors of modern Homonids? |
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| What was Muslim conversion stimulated by? |
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| What religion did the trans-Saharan trade stimulate? |
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| True of False: Africa is home to one of the largest deposits of natural materials. |
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| What two languages and what parts of them formed the Swahili language? |
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Bantu grammar and Arabic Linguistics
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| What animal helped increase the trans-Saharan trade? |
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| The coming of Islam began with what? |
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| The Arab defeat over the Byzantines. |
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What desert is located in northern Africa west of the Indian Ocean and is known as 'The Greatest Desert In The World'?
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| What were the earliest and largest structures in ancient Africa? |
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| Originally called Bushmen by Europeans |
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| What was the native family language of central Africa south of the Sahara? |
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| Empire located south of the Zambezi river? |
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| What did most Urban life in Africa develop from? |
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| Small, fortified walled villages |
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| Great grasslands that border the Sahara |
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| What two languages merged in Southern Africa? |
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| The western region of Africa, known as 'The Hump of Africa,' is dominated by what river? |
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What was the relationship between different sexes in Africa.
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| Sex differences were more relaxed than other parts of the world at this time. |
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| Where were the settlements of the Malay located? |
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| What were Ghana's chief exports? |
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Gold, leather goods, slaves and ostrich feathers
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| What religion did Axum adopt and where was it from? |
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Axum, located in modern day Ethiopia, was originally a colony of what kingdom and where was it located.
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| The Kingdom of Sheba in the Arabian Peninsula |
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| What was the African lineage group and who was it similar to? |
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Matrinilial and China/India
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| What king kept a pro-Islamic view for his rule and what kingdom was it in? |
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| Mansa Musa in the Kingdom of Mali |
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What was the main religion of Zhagwe
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| The Kush empire, originally called the Nubia, found what at Merobie? |
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| The Mali introduced what two fruits to Africa? |
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| Why did zimbabwe decline and eventually fall? |
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| Due to poor agricultural practices, including overgrazing. |
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What affects did African tribes have on the Islamic religon?
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| They formed their own type of Islamic religion that arised from mixed Islamic and local practices |
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| What was the first commercial state in west Africa? |
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| What did San rock paintings illsrated what type of ceremony? |
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| Ceremonies to induce rain |
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| What type of instruments did the Africans use? |
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| Harps, bells, and xylaphones. |
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| Tran-Saharan trade intermediaries |
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| What did most people belive about life before the introduction of Islam? |
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| That life had two stages; one earthy and one external |
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What concepts of the Islamic religion made it favorable in Africa?
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| Concepts of Egalitarianism and Polygamy |
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| Where did the minorities of Zanj originally come from? |
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| The Persian Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula |
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| Which explorer discovered the ruins of Great Zimbabwe |
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