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Chapter 8—Early Civilizations in Africa
ESSAY
1. Describe the characteristics of the various geographical regions of Africa. To what degree does access
to, or lack of, water determine their boundaries?
ANS:
Answer not provided.
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2. Discuss, with specific examples, the impact of climate upon the development of African societies.
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3. How did Karl Mauch's opinion of origin of the ruins he discovered reflect the general attitude of
nineteenth century Europeans toward the sub-Saharan Africans? How have new discoveries about
developments in Nubia, Kush, and the Sahara challenged historians' thinking about the origins of
civilization in Africa, and the world? In your opinion, what are the most significant cultural
contributions of African societies?
ANS:
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4. The text raises the question of whether Africa is a continent without history. Why would earlier
historians have held such a view, and what prompted the modification of that perspective? In what way
is the general perception of what constitutes "history" shaped by distinctly European preconceptions?
In what ways are historians of Africa able to overcome the paucity of written sources? What true
historical information can be gleaned from the Hausa oral traditions recorded in the story "Honoring
the Sacred Tree God," found in the Kano Chronicle?
ANS:
PTS: 1
5. What are the several possible reasons that might explain Islam's success in Africa prior to 1500 C.E.?
What do the career and accomplishments of Mansa Musa reveal about African society during the
fourteenth century C.E.?
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6. Describe African societies in terms of urban life, family relationships, and the parts played by women
and the institution of slavery in their social fabrics.
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7. In what way does the story "The Nyanga Meet the Pygmies of Gabon" reflect the concept held by most
early societies that law is sacred in origin?
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8. What are the possible explanations—geographical, political, religious, and economic—which kept the
West in almost total ignorance of sub-Saharan Africa until relatively recent times?
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9. Compare and contrast the elements of civilization in sub-Saharan Africa with the civilizations of
Mesoamerica. What are the similarities and differences and why?
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10. What were some of the possible factors that inhibited the growth of civilized "states" in southern
Africa?
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11. In your opinion, other than perhaps the Egyptian pyramids, what were the most significant
architectural accomplishments in Africa, and why? Be specific.
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IDENTIFICATIONS
Instructions: Identify the following terms.
1. Karl Mauch/19th century Europeans
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 213
2. Niger River
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 214
3. Congo River
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 214
4. Nubia
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 214
5. Kush
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 215
6. Axum
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 215
7. Saba
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 215

8. "hermit kingdom"
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 216
9. Coptic Christianity
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 216
10. Ethiopia
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 216
11. desiccation of the Sahara
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 215
12. the Garamantes
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 216
13. savannas
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 214
14. "fleets of the desert"
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 216

15. Meroë
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 215
16. Nok culture
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 216
17. Madagascar
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 219
18. Bantu
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 217
19. the Periplus
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 218
20. Cape Guardafui
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 218
21. Rhapta
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 218

22. Swahili
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 218
23. Ashanti
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 220
24. Nyame
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 220
25. Berbers
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 216
26. al-Maghrib
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 220
27. Zagwe dynasty
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PTS: 1 REF: p. 222
28. Zanj/Azania
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 222

29. Kilwa
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 222
30. Mombasa, Zanzibar, and Mogadishu
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 222
31. Ibn Battuta
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 222
32. Ghana and Saleh
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 225
33. mansa
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PTS: 1 REF: p. 227
34. Mali
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 225-226
35. Mansa Musa
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 227

36. Timbuktu
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PTS: 1 REF: p. 227
37. "noncentralized societies"
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PTS: 1 REF: p. 227
38. Luba and Kongo
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PTS: 1 REF: p. 228
39. Great Zimbabwe
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 229
40. Zambezi River
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PTS: 1 REF: p. 229
41. the Khoi and the San
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 230
42. Khoisan
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PTS: 1 REF: p. 230

43. lineage group
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PTS: 1 REF: p. 220
44. matrilinear
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PTS: 1 REF: p. 231
45. African slavery
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PTS: 1 REF: p. 232-233
46. rock paintings
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PTS: 1 REF: p. 233
47. Benin bronzes
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PTS: 1 REF: p. 233
48. Axum stelae
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PTS: 1 REF: p. 234
49. bards and The Epic of Son-Jara
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 236

50. Zagwe churches
ANS:
PTS: 1 REF: p. 235
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. The northern area of Africa, from the Atlantic to the Indian Oceans, is composed of the greatest desert
on earth, the
a. Kalahari.
b. Gobi.
c. Sahara.
d. Niger.
e. Mojave.
ANS: C PTS: 1 REF: p. 214
2. The great river that dominates the western region of Africa, the so-called "hump of Africa," is the
a. Nile.
b. Niger.
c. Congo.
d. Zaire.
e. Zambeze.
ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: p. 214
3. Karl Mauch found the ruins of

a. Katmandu.
b. Pietermar Teburg.
c. Great Zimbabwe.
d. Kilwa.
e. Namibia.
4. The geographical obstacle which divides Africa's northern coast from the rest of the continent
a. is the Niger River.
b. is the Nile River.
c. are the Atlas Mountains.
d. is the Sahara Desert.
e. is the Kalahari Desert.
ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: p. 214
5. If one traveled south from the grasslands of central Africa, one would reach the region of
a. the transvaal.
b. the Great Divide of the continent.
c. the area in which the predecessors of modern human beings first lived.
d. some of the world's richest deposits of minerals.
e. the Nile River
6. Which of the following is not a valid observation about the ancient civilization of the Kush?
a. It was located in Nubia.
b. Evidence suggests that it may have developed an agricultural kingdom before the
Egyptians.
c. It spread its empire to the north by driving the Romans out of Egypt.
d. It had emerged as a major trading state by the end of the second millennium B.C.E.
e. It declined in the mid-first millennium B.C.E.
7. The ancient civilization that was located in the highlands of what is known today as Ethiopia was
a. Yoruba.
b. Kush.
c. Sahara.
d. Axum.
e. Saba.
8. Axum was
a. the capital city of Kush.
b. founded possibly by migrants from the Kingdom of Saba/Sheba in the Arabian Peninsula.
c. the home of Mansa Musa.
d. fatally defeated by the army of Zimbabwe.
e. on the Congo River.
9. A unique aspect of the ancient Ethiopian civilization was the fact that
a. it was the only Muslim society in the area.
b. it adopted the form of Christianity practiced in Egypt.
c. its assimilation by Kush was brought about through the development of trade ties.
d. the Syrians were able to make it a Muslim nation.
e. it remained animist in religion until the twentieth century.
10. The vast grasslands that border the great desert region of the Sahara are known as
a. meoris.
b. wetlands.
c. savannahs.
d. jungles.
e. transvaals.
11. Which of the following statements about the Sahara Desert is true?
a. Its western half was under the Atlantic Ocean until 2000 B.C.E.
b. All evidence indicates that it was never anything other than a vast desert region.
c. At one point, it was an area that was green and flourishing with life.
d. It contained no significant trade routes.
e. It completely cut off Egypt from the rest of Africa.
12. The people of North Africa, who served as trade intermediaries for the great trans-Saharan commerce,
were the
a. Kurds.
b. Phoenicians.
c. Carthaginians.
d. Berbers.
e. Cree.
13. The great iron-working culture of northern Nigeria was the

a. Nok.
b. Axum.
c. Kush.
d. Berger.
e. Malagasy.
ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: p. 216
14. All of the following are correct about the Garamantes except they
a. transported goods across the Libyan Desert.
b. were known to the Romans.
c. survived for only a century.
d. traded in salt, glass, metal, olive oil, and wine, gold, and slaves.
e. declined as the desert dried up.
15. The following were true about the trans-Sahara caravan trade except
a. the Arab introduction of the camel into Africa enabled this trade to greatly increase.
b. cultural exchanges were stimulated by the growth of the caravan activity.
c. it enabled the Sahara region to become a major crossroad of international commerce.
d. it brought the first Islamic traders to central Africa in the first century B.C.E.
e. it allowed Islam to influence much of Africa south of the Sahara.
ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: p. 216 | p. 225
16. The family of languages spoken by people who inhabit the region of Central Africa south of the Sahara
Desert is
a. Kalaharian.
b. Nok.
c. Swahili.
d. Bantu.
e. Khoisan.
17. East African trade

a. was exclusively oriented through the Nile to the Mediterranean.
b. provided a lively, ocean-going commercial intercourse with civilizations far to the east.
c. maintained a strictly coastal exchange between African cultures only.
d. was mainly with Madagascar.
e. was dominated by Christian merchants from Constantinople.
ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: p. 218-219
18. Malayan traders and settlers
a. brought oranges and rayon to East Asia.
b. may have introduced yams and bananas to Africa.
c. were the first Khoisan speakers in southern Africa.
d. composed just under half of the population of Zanj.
e. refused to go west of India.
19. A Malay settlement was established on the island of

a. Madagascar.
b. Zimbabwe.
c. Saba.
d. Rhapta.
e. Malawi.
20. In southern Africa,

a. an integration of Khoisan and Bantu-speaking peoples took place.
b. the people of the area were generally darker and taller than the migrants from the north.
c. the culture of the Khoisan-speaking society came to dominate the area.
d. Islam became dominant in the 700s.
e. Christianity survived in the mountains in the south until recent times.
21. All of the following statements about the arrival of Islam in Africa are true except
a. it began with the Arab defeat of the Byzantines in Egypt.
b. Muslim conversion was probably stimulated by tax incentives.
c. the Arab capture of Carthage unified their hegemony over what they called al-Maghrib.
d. Berber resistance blocked Arab expansion to the westward continental limits until after
1200.
e. Arab merchants played a notable role in trade in much of northern, central, and eastern
Africa.
ANS: D PTS: 1 REF: p. 220-221
22. The Ethiopian Christian dynasty which experienced a long-lasting conflict with African Muslims was
the
a. Solomonid.
b. Coptic.
c. Zagwe.
d. Adal.
e. Gamal.
23. All of the following are correct about the land of Zanj except
a. it had a large minority of residents from the Persian Gulf and Arabian peninsula.
b. it was ruled by the Zagwe and Azim dynasties for 400 years.
c. it exported rhinoceros horn, gold, and ivory.
d. it included the cities of Pemba, Kilwa, and Mombasa.
e. most of the coastal states were self-governing.
ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: p. 222 | p. 224
24. Which of the following is a correct statement about Swahili?
a. It was a culture reflecting a mixture of Indian and African influences.
b. As a language, it employed Bantu grammar and Arabic linguistic terms.
c. The term derives from the Arab word for "jungle."
d. It was exclusively a written language.
e. It became the official language of Islam.
25. The original reason for the rise of the kingdom of Ghana was
a. its water resources.
b. its rich silver deposits.
c. the role it played in the gold trade.
d. its commerce in silk.
e. its religious ties to the Byzantine Empire.
26. The Kingdom of Ghana

a. remained poor, in spite of large lead deposits, because of series of spendthrift rulers.
b. exported gold, leather goods, slaves, and ostrich feathers.
c. was the first African state to develop large-scale fish farming.
d. had an merchant class but refused to trade with Berbers from the north.
e. accepted the tenets of Buddhism.
27. In regard to state building in West Africa, it can be said that

a. Ghana was the first great commercial state there.
b. warfare with the Byzantines resulted in the eventual decline of the kingdom of Ghana.
c. trade and commerce produced the growth of an integrated empire in the region.
d. Zimbabwe replaced Ghana as the predominant trading nation of the area.
e. it was conquered by Arabs.
28. The Kingdom of Mali

a. profited greatly from the pearl trade.
b. was sufficiently dry to enable its farmers to grow corn, as well as sorghum and millet.
c. maintained a very active pro-Islamic policy under Mansa Musa.
d. rejected Islam in favor of Ethiopian-style Christianity.
e. disappeared in the fifth century C.E.
29. The local chieftain of a Mali farming village was called a

a. mansa.
b. nkisi.
c. bantu.
d. saba.
e. sheikh.
30. Which of the following states developed in the center of Africa?
a. Luba
b. Timbuktu
c. Marrakech
d. Ditripoli
e. Axum
31. All of the following were true about the southern African state of Zimbabwe except
a. it was located south of the Zambezi River.
b. it played no significant role in the gold trade with the Swahili states to the east.
c. it derived great wealth from its role in expanded trade activities between coastal Africa
and regions of the continent's interior.
d. a possible explanation for its demise may have been its unsound environmental practices,
such as overgrazing.
e. it had a significant role in the gold trade with the Swahili states.
ANS: B PTS: 1 REF: p. 229-230
32. In regard to the urban life of African towns, it can be said that
a. they initially developed in areas with poor farmland.
b. they usually developed from smaller, fortified walled villages.
c. they were composed solely of individual linear family groupings.
d. there was no commercial relationship between the ruler and the business people.
e. slaves were in the vast majority.
33. The San

a. was the largest tribal grouping in West Africa.
b. kept the Bantu out of their lands for eight centuries by using a guerrilla war strategy.
c. created the largest city in southern Africa in the eleventh century.
d. linguistically were related to the Khoi, distinguished by the use of "clicking" sounds.
e. overwhelmed the fortress at Marrakech in 1066.
34. The lowest and most basic level of African social groupings was the
a. tribe.
b. lineage group.
c. nuclear family.
d. clan.
e. caste.
35. Which of the following statements accurately depicts the nature of the African lineage group?
a. It was similar in many respects to the clan in China and the caste system in India.
b. Outsiders were never permitted to join it.
c. It maintained the same limits of social class that the Maya had developed.
d. It was similar to the nuclear family.
e. It was disappeared with the coming of Islam.
36. Social practices typical in many African societies included
a. election of kings by all adult males.
b. a lineage system that was often matrilineal rather than patrilineal.
c. behavior patterns between the sexes that were more relaxed than those found in societies
in other parts of the world.
d. both a lineage system that was often matrilineal rather than patrilineal and behavior
patterns between the sexes that were more relaxed than those found in other societies.
e. none of these
37. Slavery in Africa

a. was introduced by the Muslims.
b. went back to ancient times, long before the arrival of the Europeans.
c. saved its harshest treatment for the domestic and royal servants.
d. was virtually nonexistent in North Africa.
e. never involved more than two percent of the population.
38. Before Islam developed in Africa,

a. most of the continent, aside from Egypt and Axum, did not have organized religions.
b. most African societies already had well-developed systems of religious belief.
c. the Ashanti worshiped a supreme god, Siva.
d. all Africans were agnostics.
e. Christianity had a strong presence in the far south of the continent.
39. Which of the following was not true about the spread of Islam in Africa?
a. It achieved only limited success in the mountains of Ethiopia.
b. It interfered with the efforts of African rulers to strengthen their power.
c. Its concepts of egalitarianism and polygamy had great appeal among the common people.
d. A different and distinctly African form of the religion developed, as local religious
practices replaced basic Islamic ones.
e. It had considerable success in both West Africa and in East Africa
40. African art

a. consists only of poetry and sculpture.
b. is very limited, due to the fact that wood was the universal medium of artistic statement.
c. contains no other major examples of architectural achievement except the pyramids.
d. includes the impressively crafted, mortar-less structures at Great Zimbabwe.
e. appeared only with the coming of Islam.
41. There are San rock paintings discovered in Africa that depict illustrations of ritual ceremonies directed
by the village shamans to
a. induce rain.
b. propitiate the merchants.
c. bring nirvana.
d. prevent floods.
e. prevent war.
42. In addition to woodcarvings, other major African artistic contributions have been
a. steel sculptures of European visitors done before 100 B.C.E.
b. ivory statues from southern Nigeria.
c. bronze and iron statuary produced at today's southern Nigeria.
d. wooden fortresses constructed in Zimbabwe.
e. Saharan aqueducts at Aswan.
43. Bronze head sculptures and relief plaques depicting West African court life were created in
a. Benin.
b. Ife.
c. Nok.
d. San.
e. Kongo.
44. Music in African societies

a. was almost exclusively composed of singing, with supporting instruments rarely used.
b. was rarely related to religious activity.
c. employed various musical instruments, including the harp, bells, and the xylophone.
d. was exported to the New World in the eleventh century.
e. played no role in most communities.
45. African music

a. never served a religious function.
b. refused to employ the use of strong motifs of repeated beats.
c. produced a totality of music in its combination of voice and instrument sounds.
d. played no role in the ceremonies, rituals, and education processes of the society.
e. was restricted only to non-Islam societies.
46. Which of the following is the earliest form of surviving architecture found in Africa?
a. the Moorish palaces at Zanzibar
b. the pyramids of Egypt
c. the ruins of Great Zimbabwe
d. the mound city of Timbuktu
e. the ruins of Carthage
47. African culture
a. is notable for its use of bards to retain and spread communal history and religious beliefs.
b. rapidly did away with bards once the Arabic and Swahili languages were established.
c. never used the storytelling talents of women to spread and perpetuate knowledge and
beliefs.
d. used only wooden carvings for religious purposes, reserving terra-cotta and metal objects
for secular occasions.
e. was never subject to outside influences.
ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: p. 236-237
48. The distinctively carved stone pillars used to mark the tombs of Axum kings are known as
a. stelae.
b. mansa.
c. sasa.
d. zamani.
e. ziggurats.
ANS: A PTS: 1 REF: p. 234 | p. 235
49. Which of the following is a true statement about African building materials during the first millennium
C.E.?
a. Stone was increasingly used in West Africa during in the first millennium C.E.
b. The only construction material used during that period was dried mud.
c. Mosques were always constructed of wood.
d. The heavy use of mortar was predominant in buildings constructed at Great Zimbabwe.
e. Metal became an important building material as early as 1000 B.C.E.
50. Recent archeological and anthropological discoveries have shown that

a. Africans took over the Arabian Peninsula before 1,000 B.C.E.
b. African societies were much more involved in worldwide developments of human history
than had previously been believed.
c. the process of state-building was more advanced in sub-Sahara Africa than it was in
ancient India, China and Mesopotamia.
d. farming and kingship were concepts brought into Africa from Mesopotamia.
e. Africa was totally isolated from the rest of the world until the tenth century C.E.
TRUE/FALSE
1. Some archeologists claim that agriculture may have appeared first in Nubia rather than in the lower
Nile valley.
ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: p. 214
2. In the fourth century, the rulers of Axum adopted the Roman Catholic form of Christianity.
ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: p. 216

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3. From 8000 to 4000 B.C.E., the Sahara featured lakes and ponds and vast grasslands.
4. Egypt's Coptic Christians were subjected to periodic persecution by the Persian Empire with its
Zoroastrian religion, and thus many converted to Islam.
5. The Romans called East Africa "Azania" and the Greeks called the area "Zanj."
6. Swahili comes from the Arabic sahel, which means "forest" or "jungle."
7. The king of Mali who went on a famous pilgrimage to Mecca in the fourteenth century was Mansa
Musa.
8. Slavery in Africa began only with the arrival of the Europeans in the late fifteenth century.
9. In Ethiopia in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, during the era of Zagwe dynasty, Christian churches
were carved out of solid rock.
10. The Bantu languages feature a "click" sound.
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Instructions: Identify the following terms.

1. Karl Mauch/19th century Europeans

PTS: 1 REF: p. 213

PTS: 1 REF: p. 214

PTS: 1 REF: p. 214

PTS: 1 REF: p. 214

PTS: 1 REF: p. 215

PTS: 1 REF: p. 215

PTS: 1 REF: p. 215

PTS: 1 REF: p. 216

PTS: 1 REF: p. 216

PTS: 1 REF: p. 216

11. desiccation of the Sahara

PTS: 1 REF: p. 215

12. the Garamantes

PTS: 1 REF: p. 216

PTS: 1 REF: p. 214

14. "fleets of the desert"

PTS: 1 REF: p. 216

PTS: 1 REF: p. 215

16. Nok culture

PTS: 1 REF: p. 216

PTS: 1 REF: p. 219

PTS: 1 REF: p. 217

19. the Periplus

PTS: 1 REF: p. 218

20. Cape Guardafui

PTS: 1 REF: p. 218

PTS: 1 REF: p. 218

PTS: 1 REF: p. 218

PTS: 1 REF: p. 220

PTS: 1 REF: p. 220

PTS: 1 REF: p. 216

PTS: 1 REF: p. 220

27. Zagwe dynasty

PTS: 1 REF: p. 222

PTS: 1 REF: p. 222

PTS: 1 REF: p. 222

30. Mombasa, Zanzibar, and Mogadishu

PTS: 1 REF: p. 222

31. Ibn Battuta

PTS: 1 REF: p. 222

32. Ghana and Saleh

PTS: 1 REF: p. 225

PTS: 1 REF: p. 227

PTS: 1 REF: p. 225-226

35. Mansa Musa

PTS: 1 REF: p. 227

PTS: 1 REF: p. 227

37. "noncentralized societies"

PTS: 1 REF: p. 227

38. Luba and Kongo

PTS: 1 REF: p. 228

39. Great Zimbabwe

PTS: 1 REF: p. 229

40. Zambezi River

PTS: 1 REF: p. 229

41. the Khoi and the San