Bling King
The empire Mansa Musa ruled during the 14th century?
What is Mali?
King Ezana ruled this kingdom in the northeast and western Africa.
What is Aksum?
The name of the historic education law passed in 1972, which banned gender discrimination in schools
What is Title IX (nine)?
The longest river in the world travels through Egypt, Sudan, and Uganda.
What is the Nile River?
Merchants along the Silk Road endured at least one of these two dangers mentioned in our text?
What are blizzards and sandstorms?
In the 14th century, this 'hot commodity' was similar in value to gold and used to preserve food before refrigerators were invented.
What is salt?
He had workers etch stories of his achievements onto a large stone slab.
What is a stelae?
She wrote an essay in 2006 in a British newspaper titled "Wimbledon Has Sent Me a Message: I'm only a second-class Champion," in which she demanded equal rewards for women who play in the tournament.
Who is Venus Williams?
Major river passes through Mali.
What is the Niger river?
In 2022 scientists used this type of technology to investigate two ancient cities of the silk road high in the mountains.
What is LIDAR?
Musa built on his wealth by conquering this city
What is Timbuktu?
Ezana became the first African king to adopt this religion.
What is Christianity?
In 2020, the tennis superstar pledged $1 million in partnership with Secret deodorant to support a nationwide study on gender inequality in sports.
Who is Serena Williams?
Large desert in North Africa.
What is the Sahara desert?
The Silk Road connected these three continents.
What is Africa, Asia, and Europe?
Musa’s journey was a 4,000-mile hajj—the Muslim pilgrimage to the holy city of?
What is Mecca?
At its height, his kingdom included these three modern-day African countries.
What are Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Sudan?
She's the first Asian American women in Congress. After her death, Congress renamed Title IX in her honor.
Who is Patsy Mink?
Central Asia's shrinking water source.
What is the Aral sea?
Both discovered cities (Tugunbuluk & Tashbuluk) were rich in this source.
What is iron ore?
To promote the study of Islam. One of Musa’s mud-brick-and-wood structures, _________________ Mosque, could hold 2,000 people. It still stands in Timbuktu today.
What is the Djinguereber Mosque
Known today as the Ezana Stone, it is written in three languages: Ge‘ez, and Sabaean and
What is Greek?
The first American woman to win 3 gold medals in the 1960 Olympics despite childhood polio and partial leg paralysis.
Who was Wilma Rudolph?
Located in Central Asia, these mountains include one of the highest mountains in the world
What is the Hindu Kush?
Two cities (Tasbulak and Tugunbulak) were recently discovered in the mountains of this present day country in Asia.
What is Uzbekistan?