Geography
This continent is where Mali is located.
What is Africa?
Mali was ruled by powerful ______.
What are kings?
This famous city in Mali was known for learning.
What is Timbuktu?
People in Mali often worked in mining and ______.
What is trading?
These group of people is how history were passed down in Mali.
What is griots and telling stories?
Mali’s location helped it become rich because kings could do this to goods and trade routes.
What is tax goods and use military soldiers?
Who is Mali's most powerful king?
Who is Mansa Musa?
Why was Mali’s location important to its wealth?
What is it allowed trade and the ability to tax goods?
These two resources made Mali wealthy.
What are gold and salt?
Oral tradition means people share stories by ______.
What is speaking/telling them aloud?
Mali was located near trade routes in this dry region.
What is the Sahara Desert?
Were Mali’s rulers presidents or kings?
What are kings?
Name one important city in Mali.
What is Timbuktu?
What jobs were most common in Mali?
What are mining and trading?
Why was storytelling important in Mali?
What is to pass down history and traditions?
Mali became wealthy because it was located along important ______ routes.
What are trade routes?
Mali’s kings were known for being rich and ______.
What is powerful?
Mali’s wealth made it known to traders from this continent.
What is Europe?
What did Mali trade that made it rich? (Name both resources!)
What is gold and salt?
What is another name for storytelling traditions?
What is oral tradition?
This explorer sailed for Spain and reached the Caribbean in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Mali’s rulers were known for being wealthy because they controlled these two important natural resources.
What are gold and salt?
Mali traded with people across this sea, where the Niger flows into.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The ______ could collect taxes on goods bought and sold in Mali.
Who is the king?
Mali’s oral tradition helped people remember important events without using this.
What is writing?