Africa

Match each description to the name of the correct location.

• Africa

• The largest desert region in Southern Africa

• Kalahari

• Highest peak in Africa

• Madagascar

• Second largest continent (after Asia)

• Congo

• Fourth Largest Island in the World

• Mount Kilimanjaro

• The World's second largest river in the volume of water it carries

For many centuries, Europeans knew so little about the rest of Africa they called it the ______.

• Unknown Land
• Mysterious Territory
• Hidden Realm
• Dark Continent

The (a)   was the greatest ancient civilization in Africa's interior.

The (b)   was Africa's first and greatest Christian Kingdom.

• Kingdom of Cush

• Kingdom of Kongo

• Kingdom of Aksum

Answer explanation

In ancient times, Cush was often called Ethiopia, though it was located to the west of modern Ethiopia.

The ______, the first recorded African Christian, took the gospel back to Africa and founded a Christian church that thrived for many centuries.

• Ethiopian eunuch

• Roman soldier

• Queen of Sheba

• European explorer

Answer explanation

This Ethiopian eunuch was the most famous Cushite in history and was the servant of Queen Candace whom Philip led to Christ.

One of the most mountainous countries of Africa was Saba, also called (a)   . The (b)   , who carried gold, precious stones, and spices to King Solomon in Jerusalem, may have come from Saba.

• Sheba

• Timbuktu

• Sahara

• Queen of Sheeba

• Queen of Sahara

Answer explanation

Saba, also called Sheba, later became the Kingdom of Aksum.

Match each person to their correct description.

• King Lalibela

• One of the greatest leaders in all of church history

• David Livingstone

• Carved ten churched from solid rock that still stand today

• Henry Stanley

• Young reporter who went searching for David Livingstone

• Athanasius the Great

• Greatest of all African explorers and one of the most famous explorers in history

Who preached the gospel in the court where he served, had to go to Egypt to ask other Christians to come and help with the Ethiopian church, and was made a leader of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church?

• Frumentius

• Simon of Cyrene

• Athanasius the Great

• King Lalibela

Answer explanation

From their mountain strongholds, the Ethiopian Christians bravely defended their faith against Muslim invaders who swept into Africa during the Middles Ages.

(a)   Africa, along the Mediterranean Sea, became one of the strong centers of the Christian church shortly after the time of Christ.

• Northern

• Southern

• Eastern

Answer explanation

Simon of Cyrene is remembered as the man who carried the cross for Jesus. Cyrene was an African city just across the Mediterranean Sea from Greece.

The (a)   Empire was an impressive empire that arose in the west and was known for its great wealth in gold and for its famous center of learning, the city of (b)   , where many people traveled to use its libraries and study at its universities.

• Ghana

• Mali

• Timbuktu

• Congo

Africa is known as the "home of animal tales," and ______ is a Greek slave who wrote the famous fables.

• Aesop
• Stanley

• Livingstone

• Plato