abeka world history section 6.1 - 6.2

located in modern day libya

phut / put

descendants of ham

phut

greatest civilization in the interior of ancient africa

cush

cush was located modern day ______

sudan

cushite warrior who conquered egypt

piankhi

other names for cush

nubia or ethiopia

helped rescue the prophet jerehmiah from prison / 1st african on record to become a christian

ethiopian eunuch

east of cush (modern day ethiopia)

sabea

other names for sabea

seba & kingdom of aksum

2 roman christian slaves who brought the gospel to ethiopia in the AD 300s

edessius & frumentius

man from cyrene who helped Jesus carry his cross

simon or cyrene

church leaders from carthage

turtullian & cyprian

wrote the oldest surviving hymn

clement of alexandria

what is the oldest surviving hymn?

“shepherd of tender youth”

church father known for defending the deity of Christ

athanasius

bishop of christian church who defended the gospel (influenced protestant leaders)

augustine of hippo

known for extensive trade with asia & the middle east

people of punt

traded with arabia for gold & slaves (ruled AD 300 - 1200)

ghana

ruled after ghana fell (AD 1200 - 1500)

mali

greatest ruler of the mali empire

mansa musa

important trading center of the mali empire

timbuktu

ruled in west africa (AD 1400 - 1500)

songhai

monopolized trade across the sahara

songhai

one of the greatest rulers of the songhai empire

askia the great

led by the powerful king ewuare (their greatest ruler)

kingdom of benin

largest central african kingdom until the 1700s

kingdom of the kongo

capital of the kingdom of the kongo

zimbabwe

belief that natural things are inhabited by mostly malignant spirits

animism