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This ocean borders Africa to the west.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
These professional storytellers preserved history and entertained communities through oral tradition.
Who are griots?
This animal made trans-Saharan trade across the Sahara Desert possible.
What is a camel?
In The Lightning Thief, Percy discovers he is the son of this Greek god.
Who is Poseidon?
This philosophy, founded by Laozi, teaches harmony with nature and the Dao.
What is Taoism?
A group of people who share the same language, traditions, values, and culture is called this.
What is an ethnic group?
This colorful handwoven cloth was traditionally made for royalty in West Africa.
What is kente cloth?
Groups of merchants who traveled together for protection were called these.
What are caravans?
Comparing two unlike things using “like” or “as” is this poetic device.
What is a simile?
This river, also known as the Zhu Jiang, flows through the city of Guangzhou.
What is the Pearl River?
This semiarid region separates the Sahara from the tropical climates farther south.
What is the Sahel?
This Mandinka prince united allies against Soumaoro and became the first “Mansa.”
Who is Sundiata Keita?
These family-based groups established villages that later formed larger communities and ethnic groups.
What are clans?
This rhetorical appeal uses emotion to persuade an audience.
What is pathos?
This dangerous desert along the Silk Road is covered mostly in deep sand dunes and lacked fresh water.
What is the Taklamakan Desert?
This belief system teaches that nature and objects, like animals, rivers, and rocks, have spirits.
What is animism?
The Mali Empire built famous structures like the Great Mosque of Djenné and this university in Timbuktu.
What is the University of Sankoré?
This trading process involved merchants exchanging goods without meeting face-to-face.
What is silent barter?
This poetic device gives human qualities to nonhuman objects or ideas.
What is personification?
About this many silkworms were killed to make one pound of silk.
What is 3,000?
The Bantu used tools made from this metal to increase farming and support larger communities.
What is iron?
This emperor of Songhai expanded the empire, promoted Islamic scholarship, and increased trade with Europe and Asia.
Who is Askia Muhammad?
This major trade network connected North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa and relied heavily on the exchange of salt and gold.
What is the trans-Saharan trade?
A reference to another famous story, myth, person, or event is called this literary device- something used frequently in Percy Jackson.
What is an allusion?
About this many days would it take to walk between Chang’an and Turfan if you walked 12 hours per day.
What is 41 days?