Geography
A geographic region that is dry with sand dunes.
What is a desert?
Ghana's size compared to the other two West African Kingdoms
What is smaller?
Mali's wealthiest and most famous ruler.
Who was Mansa Musa?
Songhai was the _______ of the three empires (chronological)
What is the last / third / most recent?
Define cultural diffusion.
What is culture spreading to different places?
The geographic region that borders the desert.
What is the sahel?
Ghana relied on these goods for trade.
What is salt and gold?
Many people in Mali, including many mansas, followed this religion.
What is Islam?
Songhai took these two important cities from Mali.
What is Djenne and Timbuktu?
What is trade and conquest?
The geographic region the three West African kingdoms were largely located in.
What is the savanna?
Ghana invented this system to gain money from trade.
What is taxing people when they leave and when they enter?
A trading city that was developed into a center of learning.
What is Timbuktu?
Songhai's laws were based on this.
What is Islamic Law (Sharia)?
This religion spread across trade routes in Africa during the medieval period.
What is Islam?
Name one adaptation people made to survive in the rainforest.
What is hunting & gathering fruit and plants, farming at the edge of the forest, etc?
Ghana's capital city.
What is Koumbi-Saleh?
The leader who founded the empire of Mali.
Who was Sundiata Keita?
The founder of the Songhai Empire.
Who is Sunni Ali?
This caused literacy to increase in Africa during the medieval period.
What is the teaching of the Quran?
Three major rivers in West Africa that were important to the Empire of Ghana.
What are the Niger, Gambia, and Senegal Rivers?
The invaders who captured Ghana's capital in 1076.
Who were the Moroccans (Almoravid Dynasty)?
The name of a university founded in Timbuktu in 989 CE?
What is the University of Sankore?
Invasions by this place eventually caused Songhai to fall.
What is Morocco?
Many mosques in Africa were built using this local material, showing how the religious buildings were adapted to local architecture.
What are mud bricks / what is mud?