Geography
Great civilizations in West Africa arose along this.
What is the Niger River?
People south of the Sahara traded their gold for
What is salt?
Who was Mali’s greatest and most famous ruler
Who is Mansa Musa?
The King of Ghana was so revered he was thought to be half this and half that.
What is half man and half god?
Two uses of iron that were the most significant for West Africans were
What are tools for farming and weapons?
A type of vegetation zone that is warm, dry and has lots of grass
What is a savanna?
Long trains of camels travelling together on trading routes.
What is a caravan?
A powerful West African Kingdom that grew rich because of trade (400CE-1200CE)
What is Ghana?
Men and women in traditional West African society were loyal to their
What is family and age sets
The reason salt was so valuable?
A type of vegetation zone that is hot and very dry with very little or no rain.
What is a desert?
This religion spread via the Trans-Sahara trade route.
What is Islam?
A large empire that took over West Africa after the Ghana Empire fell apart (1200CE-1450CE)
What is Mali Empire?
The traditional religious practice of West Africans was
What is animism
Because merchants often did not speak the same language, this type of bartering was quite common with a unique system.
What is silent bartering?
Salt was obtained from these.
What are dried lake beds and/or mines?
These people were taxed when coming into the Mali Empire.
Who are merchants?
Ghana used its money collected from taxes for this purpose.
What is raise/supply an army?
"Salt comes from the north and gold from the south but the treasures of wisdom are to be found only in..
What is Timbuktu?
Trade for salt, gold, copper and slaves was to attain these four items for example.
What are cloth, guns, horses and shells?
One reason Ghana fell as an empire was that crops were affected due to this.
What is drought?
West African gold was minted into this that was used by traders throughout the Eastern kingdoms and contributed to global trade.
What are coins?
The Songhai Empire emerged as a result of this.
What is the decline of Mali?
Like Islamic Spain, tolerance was shown by not converting to Islam but to
What is bring in Islamic scholars?
Geography plays a large part in the shaping of societies and cultures. Other than the African Empires that we studied, this is another ancient society/culture shaped by geography.
What is....... (answers will vary but justification is needed)