Geography
Name the river that runs through the eastern part of Africa.
What is the Nile River?
What region or area were the three major empires? (Hint: not vegetation region)
What is West Africa?
Name the 3 empires we learned about in order.
Ghana, Mali, and Songhai
Things we study that are from the past.
What are artifacts?
What is the sea of land? What is the ships of the desert?
The Sahara Desert and camels
What ocean is to the West of Africa?
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
What vegetation regions were all 3 empires in?
What are, desert and grasslands?
Who is believed to be the richest person in the world? What empire did he rule over?
Mansa Musa, Mali Empire
History that is passed down by writing.
What is written history?
A region with tall grass and few scattered trees?
What is the Savanna? (Grasslands)
What ocean is to the East of Africa?
What was special about the location of the 3 empires that led them to be rich?
Good location for trade/In between salt and gold mines.
What empire fell because it became too large? Why was this an issue?
Songhai, it was hard to communicate and control people from so far away without the technology we have today.
A type of historian who studies things/objects from the past.
What is an archaeologist?
An evergreen forest in a tropical area with lots of rain and very hot weather.
What is the rain forest?
Name the 3 vegetation regions in Africa.
What are desert, rainforest, and grasslands?
What city was the center of learning and knowledge in the Mali and Songhai empire?
Timbuktu
What is a similarity that all 3 empires shared during their rise?
Expanded armies, controlled trade, powerful kings ...
History that is passed down by speaking, or storytelling, and not written down.
What is oral history?
One of the major religions of the world that was popular in West Africa.
What is Islam?
There were two valuable mines near Ghana. To the North there were ____________ mines, and to the South there were _____________ mines.
What are salt and gold?
What emperor was exiled from the Ghana Empire and came back to take it over?
Sundiata
What are two similarities that the 3 empires shared during their decline/fall?
Attacks from outsiders, poor leadership, lost control trade...
A historian that passes down their history through stories not by writing them down.
What are griots?
What empire had a general that took over the king, and then shortly after, his son overthrew him?
Songhai