FAC- Africa (Ch.11-13)

Largest desert in the world, located in Africa.

• Sahel

• savanna

• Sahara

• Nubian

Belt south of the Sahara where it transitions into the savanna across central Africa. It means 'coastland' in Arabic.

• Sahara

• Sahel

• Savanna

• Ghana

An area of grassland with scattered trees and bushes is called.....

• savanna

• artifact

• smelting

• Sahara

The longest river in West Africa and a trading highway in early times.

• Orange River

• Congo River

• Nile River

• Niger River

An object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest.

• offering

• present

• artifact

• clothing

West Africa's earliest known culture; lived in what is now Nigeria; between 500 B.C. and 200 A.D.; first people known to smelt iron; fashioned iron into tools for farming and weapons for hunting.

• Nok

• Ghana

• Jenne-jeno

• Mali

Extract (metal) from its ore by a process involving heating and melting.

• crafting

• matrilineal

• trading

• smelting

One of the first urbanized centers in western Africa. A walled community home to approximately 50,000 people at its height. Evidence suggests domestication of agriculture and trade with nearby regions.

• Jenne-jeno

• Nok

• Ghana

• Mali

Money paid by one country to another in return for protection.

• gift

• tribute

• offering

• artifact

First known kingdom in sub-Saharan West Africa between the sixth and thirteenth centuries C.E. Also, the modern West African country once known as the Gold Coast.

• Jenne-jeno

• Ghana

• matrilineal

• Nok