Quick Facts Teaching Strategy 25
Visual Study Guide: African Kingdoms
Reading Charts Have students work in pairs. Have students review the charts by taking turns
quizzing each other. Tell students to make note of the areas in which they had trouble. Suggest
that students create flashcards for their areas of difficulty.
English-Language Learners Play a review game with students. Working with one block of
information at a time, cover the whole transparency by quizzing the students. For example, for
Environments of Africa, read the description and ask students to name the environment. For West
Africa, read the Key Rulers/City-States and have students supply the country. After you quiz students on each block, uncover the transparency and review the information. Then continue on to
the next block. Suggest that students make flashcards for blocks that were troublesome.
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Quick Facts 25
Visual Study Guide: African Kingdoms
VISUAL STUDY GUIDE
African Environments
African Traditions
Environment
Description
Characteristic
Description
Desert
Arid wastelands; Sahara
Family ties
Dry woodland
Wooded areas
Extended families; clans;
age-sets
Mediterranean
Mild, fertile areas; northern and southern
coastal tips
Religions
Animism; ancestor worship
Oral traditions
Sahel
Semiarid land south of the Sahara
Griots; history, stories, songs,
poems, proverbs
Savanna
Grasslands with scattered trees;
dry and wet seasons; support farming;
most populated region
Arts
Masks, dance, music
Tropical rain forest
Hot, humid, and dense forests;
high rainfall year-round
East African Civilizations
Society or State
Date
Key Rulers/City-States
Key Facts
Aksum
100s–500s (height)
King Ezana
Northeast trading kingdom; Christian
Early Ethiopia
1100s (founded)
King Lalibela
Northeast kingdom; Christian
Coastal trading city-states
1100s–1400s
Kilwa, Mogadishu, Mombasa, Sofala Swahili; Arab and Muslim influence
Great Zimbabwe
1100s–1400s
—
Southeast inland trading kingdom
West African Civilizations
Society or State
Date
Key Rulers/City-States
Key Facts
Ghana Empire
800s–1070s
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Gold-salt trade
Mali Empire
1230s–1430s
Sundiata, Mansa Musa
Gold-salt trade; Muslim
Songhai Empire
1460s–1591
Sunni Ali, Askia Muhammad
Trans-Saharan trade; Muslim
Benin Kingdom
1000s–1800s
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Trade; bronze artwork
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