The Learning Umbrella

1. What did Ibn Battuta do?  Approximately when?
   1. 1,000 B.C
   2. 500 AD
   3. 1300 AD
   4. 1800 AD
2. Approximately when did the Portugeuse first build forts in
   West Africa?
   1. 1300
   2. 1500
   3. 1700
   4. 1900
3. How did the discovery of the
   Americas affect
   Africa?
4. Where and when was the Asante Empire?

   1. Guinea
      Coast, 500 AD

   2. Guinea
      Coast, 1600 AD

   3. 
      South Africa, 1000 AD
   4. 
      South Africa, 1500 AD
5. Name and give something about 1-2 other African kingdoms
6. How were the
   Nile and
   Niger rivers important to exploration?
7. Who was

   Mungo
   Park?

8. What was the importance of
   Timbuktu to explorers?
9. Where did Livingstone explore?
10. What did Henry Stanley do?

I used to think that testing was unnecessary, but with my sister it’s good to give her these pausing points to look back and see if she understood/remembered what she did/read.  We don’t grade our tests, as we are not giving grades.  However, each question that she gets wrong will have a review or extra assignment added for it.

Our text for this study is Exploration into Africa by Isimeme Ibazebo.  I like the book a lot, and I’m learning new things at the same time J. is.  I’m afraid this is a subject that I totally neglected when I was in school (but it seems to be a subject that is totally neglected in general).