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African test
Question | Answer |
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What is the importance of village life in West Africa? | The people had to work and they had to have a family to keep a family going. |
How was the trade and regional developments? | The populations grew to be very large,and cause of this to get kings to control the kingdom. |
What did they do to pass down traditions? | The Africans used oral tradition to pass down stories and cultures their ans-ester did. |
Was the Geography of West Africa good? | They had 3 vegetation zones,desert and grass land,also had many types of trading zones. |
How was the Growth of Ghana's empire? | They got Islams in and that convinced them to convert to Islam. |
Why did Ghana's empire decline? | The Almaravid attacked Ghana,and the Ghana could not hold on. |
Who was Sundita? | Sundita was called the lion king because he started the Mali Empire and also got rid of the bad king. |
Why was Mansa Musa? | Mansa Musa was was a guy that expanded the empire but brought all the gold on a pilgrimage to Mecca and wasted almost all of it. |
Why did the Mali decline? | The regions began to rebel,the Songhai began to gain strength,The Berber,nomads seized territories,Th rebels captured more lands and reduced the population. |
Why did Songhai expand? | The Sunni killed the Berbers and drove them out of the empire. |
Why did the Songhai decline? | Asia's Son removed his father from the throne Morocco's army raided salt mines. |
What was the cause to the growth of Kongo? | They had fertile land,had iron,copper,they had transportation,fishing. |
What made the Kongo kingdom? | They gained total control of the Congo river. |
What made the alliance for Portugal and Africa? | Portugal came and showed them Christianity,showed them guns,horses,and more manufactured goods,also Africa converted to Christianity. |
Why did Portugal want more slaves? | they wanted more slaves to pick there sugar because they really wanted sugar back then. |
Why was the slave trade bad? | The slave trade was bad because the African population decreased very fast,and they were vulnerable to attack. |
Why did the Kongo kingdom end? | It ended because they ended up giving to much slaves also the Jaga attacked the Kongo and it was defeated. |