West African Empires
The King of Mali who was so wealthy that his spending caused inflation in Egypt.
Who is Mansa Musa?
What is Mexico City?
What is a natural resource?
The modern day country where Mecca, a pilgrimage site for Muslims, is located.
What is Saudi Arabia?
The order in which the three West African empires rose and fell.
What is Ghana, Mali, then Songhai?
The King of Mali who was nicknamed "The Lion King".
Who is Sundiata Keita?
A natural resource that the Maya used as curency.
What is cacao?
A good that you send away to another place.
What is an export?
From north to south, the order of where the civilizations of the Americas were?
The Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
The two most important trade goods for the West African empires?
What are gold and salt?
This Peruvian city was the capital of the Inca Empire.
A storyteller and advisor to the king who maintains oral history.
What is a griot?
A world map made by Jewish cartographers in Spain in 1375.
What is the Catalan Atlas?
The Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
An explorer who visited many places, including Mali, and wrote the Rihlah, a book about what he learned.
Who is Ibn Battuta?
The most famous ziggurat of the Maya.
What is Chichen Itza?
A type of religion where people believe in multiple gods.
What is polytheistic?
Two major rivers that ran through the empires of west Africa.
What are the Niger and Senegal Rivers?
One of the biggest factors contributing to the fall of empires in the Americas, brought by Europeans.
What is disease?
A city which was a major center of trade and learning in West Africa.
What is Timbuktu?
The official language of the Inca, which is the most commonly spoken indigenous language in the Americas.
A religious journey to visit a holy place.
What is a pilgrimage?
The Kingdom of Ghana was positioned between these two biomes.
What are desert and rainforest?
Three factors that led to the fall of the Mali Empire.
What are poor leadership, declining wealth, and the rise of the Sonhai?