Chapter 6: Central and Southern Africa

Chapter 6: Central and Southern Africa

TEST REVIEW SHEET

·  VOCABULARY

1. Bantu Migrations 2. Swahili 3. Kilwa 4. Shona

5. Zimbabwe 6. Great Zimbabwe 7. Great Enclosure 8. Mutapa

9. Kongo 10. Mbanza 11. Afonso I

·  CHART—Comparing Great Zimbabwe & Mutapa Empire

o  Fill out the chart by listing the similarities between Great Zimbabwe and the Mutapa Empire.

GREAT ZIMBABWE / MUTAPA EMPIRE
Who built it? / Shona—Bantu people who traveled southeast to settle on plains / Shona group, led by Mutoto, traveled north to settle in present-day Zimbabwe
Source of wealth? / Taxed trade between West African and east coast trading cities / “
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What was the size of the empire? / Greater than 100 acres / Most of present-day Zimbabwe, stretching south to the Zambezi River and east to the coast of the Indian Ocean

·  SHORT ANSWER/CRITICAL THINKING

1. How were the Bantu migrations an example of movement?
2. How were the coastal trading routes an example of movement?
3. How did Great Zimbabwe’s location allow it to become extremely wealthy and powerful?
4. What attribute of the Kongo kingdom made it similar to the Songhai Empire of Askia Muhammad?
5. How did Afonso’s rule both help and hurt Kongo?
6. What did the slave trade between Kongo and Portugal eventually do to the population of West Africa?

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