Chapter 6 Other African cultures
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Piankhi | A Cushite warrior who overcame Egypt and began a period of Sudanese rule there |
| Edesius and Frumentius | Christian youths from Rome who were shipwrecked and taken to Ethiopia as slaves; who preached gospel in the court of King Ezana and introduced Christianity to Ethiopia |
| Simon of Cyrene | Compelled by Romans to carry the cross for Jesus |
| Tertullian, Cyprian | Early church fathers and martyrs of Carthage |
| Clement, Origen | Theologians from Alexandria |
| Athanasius | Spokesman for deity of Christ and the doctrine at the Trinity Council of Nicaea |
| Augustine | Bishop of Hippo; emphasized how salvation is given by grace alone |
| Mansa Musa | Greatest ruler of the Mali Empire |
| Askia the Great | Most powerful and wealthy rulers of Songhai |
| Robert Moffat | Pioneer missionary to Africa from Scotland |
| David Livingstone | Most famous of the British missionaries and explorers of Africa |
| Henry Stanley | American newspaper reporter sent to Africa to find David Livingstone |
| Khama | African chief who became a Christian and ruled his territory righteously |
| Granville Sharp | British Philanthropists who helped slaves colonize in Freetown Sierra Leone |
| Samuel Adjai Crowther | First black bishop of the Church of England |
| Lot Carey, Colin Teague | First Christian missionaries to Liberia |
| William Harris | Most famous Liberian evangelist; preached on Ivory coast when he was 60 years old |
| Muammar al-Qaddafi | Libyan dictator who supported Idi Amin |
| Idi Amin | Took control of Uganda and ruled until 1979; killed and tortured about 300,000 people |
| Haile Selassie I | Last Abyssinian monarchs of Ethiopia; overthrown and murdered by Communist in 1975 |
| Nelson Mandela | Marxist leader of African National Congress and first black president of South Africa |
| Dark Continent | Name for Africa, remained unexplored till 19th century |
| Sahara Desert | World's largest desert; spreads over most of northern Africa |
| Kalahari Desert | Spans much of southern Africa |
| Atlas Mountains | Africa's longest mountain range |
| Mount Kilimanjaro | Africa's tallest mountain |
| Nile River | World's longest river |
| Lake Victoria | Largest lake in Africa; second largest freshwater lake in the world |
| Lake Tanganyika | World's longest and second deepest freshwater lake |
| Great Rift Valley | Largest depression in earth's surface |
| Punt | Area of modern day Somalia |
| Ghana Empire | Ruled by African tribal chiefs; dominated trade across the Sahara Desert 300-1200AD |
| Mali Empire | West African kingdom who dominated most of Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Senegal from 1200-1500AD |
| Timbuktu | Important trading center;famous center for learning and culture under Mansa Musa; greatest ruler of Mali Empire |
| Songhai Empire | Great African kingdom which dominated West Africa from late 1400s to 1500s |
| Kingdom of Benin | Arose during 1200s along coast of Nigeria |
| Kingdom of the Kongo | Largest central African Kingdom from 1400-1700s |
| Zimbabwe | Capital of two southern African empires; city in the modern of Zimbabwe; country formerly known as Rhodesia |
| Victoria Falls | Seven wonders of the Natural World; located on the Zambezi River between Zimbabwe and Zambia |
| Freetown | Place in Sierra Leone where Granville Sharp helped slaves colonize in Freetown |
| Monrovia | Capital of Liberia; named after US president Monroe |
| Eritrea | Northern province of Ethiopia which seceded in 1993 |
| Savanna | Vast tract of Land characterized by wet and dry seasons |
| Animism | Belief that natural objects and forces are inhabited by mostly malignant spirits |
| African National Congress | Communist led subversive organization active in South Africa |
| All three sons of Ham who settled in Africa | Mizraim, Phut, and Cush |
| Biblical names for the land settled by Phut | Phut, put, and Libya |
| Greatest civilization in Africa's interior | Kingdom of Cush |
| Biblical names for Cushites or Nubians | Ethiopians |
| The first African on record to become a Christian | Ethiopian eunuch |
| Three important centers of Christianity in North Africa | Alexandria, Carthage, and Cyrene |
| The group dominated North Africa by the AD 700s | Muslims |
| The European country which supplied many early explorers and missionaries to Africa | Scotland |
| The first independent African Republic | Liberia |
| The only two African countries not to have been ruled by a European power by the outbreak of World War I | Ethiopia and Liberia |
| The first African country south of the Sahara to become independent following World War II | Ghana |
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