What are the six major rivers that flow in africa?
which is the longest?
how was the rift valley formed?
what mountain in africa remains ice-capped all year long?
was the sahara a desert in 2000 bce? how do we know this?
what is a griot? what was her/his place in african society?
name three major languages spoken in the african regional civilizations.
what was the kush kingdom's capital?
where was the city of meroë and what natural resource did it produce?
what modern african nation traces its christian culture back to axum?
where in africa did people build their houses out of salt?
in which african civilization was salt worth its weight in gold?
where was the kingdom of ghana and why did the almoravids launch a war against ghana?
what people formed the powerful kingdom of mali?
what did mansu musa give to the people of cairo when he visited there?
what was timbuktu best known for under the rule of the songhai?
what two foreign trading partners made east africa a center of international commerce?

1. What are the six major rivers that flow in Africa?

Niger, Nile, Congo, Orange, Limpopo, and Zaire

2.The Nile

3.How was the Rift Valley formed?  

A rift valley is formed when two adjacent geologic plates separate and move away form each other.

4.What mountain in Africa remains ice-capped all year long?  

Mt. Kilamajaro

5.  Was the Sahara a desert in 2000 BCE? How do we know this?

The Sahara began to turn into a desert in 4000 B.C.

6. What is a griot? What was her/his place in African society?

Griots were/are masters of words and music.The male griots and female griottes were historians, genealogists.

7.  Where was the city of Meroë and what natural resource did it produce?

by nubia

8. ?

9.   Where in Africa did people build their houses out of salt?

There are some buildings made out of salt rock flat areas of South Africa, but no communities where all of them are.

10. Where was the Kingdom of Ghana and why did the Almoravids launch a war against Ghana?

west part they had the resource of slat

11.What people formed the powerful kingdom of Mali?

the empire was formed by sundiata keita

12.  traded gold for souvenirs. It was reported that he built a mosque every Friday.

13. Emperor Toure eventually made Songhai the largest state in African history with Timbuktu as its capital\

14. The European Union and The Unites States

after the civil war, and with the termination of slavery, the south was faced with a big problem; what was supposed to happen and how they were supposed to deal with the freedom and the rights that black people and freed slaves had gained as a result of the north defeating the south and forcing the end of slavery. first, most, if not all, of the workforce of the south came from slaves and they did not have an option to replace the loss of said workforce. second, particularly in the south, people were convinced that black people were lesser, less intelligent, less capable and less smart than whites. this posed a huge problem for them. also, southerners were faced with another issue; freed slaves now had a say in how their lives would be lived and the right to politically choose the way they would be governed. people in the south did not want to accept this, none of this and this opposition and the conflicts that arose from it, not to mention the afereffects of the war, forced the congress of the time to enact and enforce the reconstruction plans that had been proposed by president andrew johnson.

although the crusades failed to capture jerusalem, they had several major impacts on western europe. they increased the authority of the king: sometimes nobles died in battle without leaving an heir in which case the king got their land. kings passed taxes to pay for the crusades.