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