| What is the Serengeti? | a grassy plain in Africa that witnesses some of the world’s largest annual animal migrations a desert in southern Africa a climate pattern in the Horn of Africa a semiarid transition zone between the Sahel and the Mediterranean coast |
| What is a key characteristic of Africa’s Mediterranean climate? | It is sunny and well suited for farming. It is very similar to the climate of the Sahel. It is arid and known for its sandy soils. It is tropical. |
| What characteristic best describes the traditional religious beliefs of the Baka people? | animistic monotheistic pre-Islamic ritualistic |
| For the San people of southern Africa, religion _____. | included elements of animism was polytheistic and intimately bound up in the hunt for prey was based on early Christian models centered on ritualized foraging for plant buds and seasonal nuts |
| What African region independently developed agriculture based on yams? | West Africa the eastern Sahara North Africa South Africa |
| In what part of Africa did sophisticated ironworking technology develop independently? | Central Africa South Africa the eastern Sahara North Africa |
| How was ironworking technology likely disseminated throughout sub-Saharan Africa? | It was introduced by migrating Bantus. It was introduced by Egyptian traders. It was introduced by Nilo-Saharan farmers. It was introduced by Near Eastern conquerors. |
| What was the likely original location of the proto-Bantu speakers? | the area between Nigeria and Cameroon the area west of Egypt the Ethiopian highlands the central Sahara region |
| What areas remained largely untouched by Bantu migrants until recent times? | the western Kalahari Desert the Lake Victoria region Western Tanzania Eastern Botswana |
| What city was the site of the earliest iteration of the Kingdom of Kush? | Kerma Thebes Meroe Napata |
| During what period did the Kingdom of Kush cooperate with the Hyksos rulers of the Nile delta to keep the Egyptian rulers at Thebes weak? | the Second Intermediate Period the Old Kingdom the First Intermediate Period the New Kingdom |
| What two items of trade helped the Kingdom of Kush become wealthy and powerful in its early centuries? | iron and gold diamonds and copper fish and dates wheat and rice |
| What is the Kushite king Piye most famous for? | conquering Egypt defeating the Romans giving tribute to Persia trading with Greece |
| The Kingdom of Kush was most heavily influenced by its long connection with which culture? | Egyptian Persian Greek Nok |
| During the Meroitic period, what high-quality item did the Kingdom of Kush gain a reputation for producing? | iron bronze pottery cloth |
| Where was the Phoenician city of Carthage located? | the coast of present-day Tunisia the Sahel Egypt the plains of the Atlas Mountains |
| How did the Ptolemaic rulers of Egypt seek to legitimate their rule? | by adopting Egyptian religious practice and styling themselves as pharaohs by enslaving all Egyptians by employing Egyptians in high-level administrative positions by learning to speak Egyptian |
| What animal transformed trade across the Sahara? | camel horse cattle sheep |
| Why did early trans-Saharan traders move salt across the desert into sub-Saharan Africa? | Salt was necessary and scarce in the region. Salt was used to mine gold. Salt was heavily taxed by the Romans. Salt was prized for its religious properties. |
