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Desert in Northern Africa
What is the Sahara Desert?
These were the major exports of Western Africa.
What is Gold and Salt?
This religion was brought to Africa by Arab merchants
What is Islam?
people that brought Islam to West Africa
Who were the Arab merchants?
tropical, dry grasslands with small trees and shrubs
What is the Savannah?
Body of water North of Africa
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The first great African trading kingdom
What is Ghana?
In most traditional African religions, followers honored this.
What are ancestors?
Mali King, devout Muslim, one of the wealthiest people ever.
Who was Mansa Musa?
an area of high flat land
What is a plateau?
Body of water between Africa and Arabia
What is the Red Sea?
The main role of a griot
The belief that everything in nature has a spirit
What is animism?
Songhai King, devout Muslim, ordered that courts enforce Muslim law, ordered that schools teach Arabic.
Who was Askia Muhammad?
formal study and learning
What is scholarship?
city in West Africa that became the location for trade as well as formal scholarship of Islam
What is the Timbuktu?
This was how the kingdom of Ghana was able to grow so wealthly and powerful.
What is taxing the gold/salt trade?
A cultural blend of Arabic and traditional African religions.
What is Swahili?
Great warrior king called the "Lion Prince," who ruled Mali in the 1200s.
Who was Sundiata Keita?
trade between peoples north and south of the Sahara
What is the Trans-Saharan Trade?
Major river in Western Africa on which the West African kingdoms were built
What is the Niger River?
The laws of Songhai were written in this language. It also became the language of trade in West Africa.
What is the Arabic language?
This person would perform rituals, cast bones to tell fortunes, and provide herbs and remedies for illness.
What are witchdoctors?
ruler of Songhai that seized Timbuktu and control of West African trade
Who was Sunni Ali?
stories passed down by mouth from generation to generation
What is oral history?