Geography & Trade Routes
These large grassland areas were perfect for herding animals in Africa.
What are savannas?
This powerful West African kingdom became wealthy from gold and salt trade.
What is Ghana?
This belief system honored ancestors and spirits in traditional African societies.
What is traditional African religion?
In the Islamic slave trade, who could NOT be enslaved?
This term refers to a person forced to work without freedom.
What is a slave?
This vast desert made travel difficult but became crossed by important trade routes.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This ruler of Mali made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca.
Who is Mansa Musa?
Islam spread to Africa mainly through these people.
What are Muslim merchants?
DAILY TRIPLE: Europeans traded these goods for enslaved Africans.
What are guns, cloth, and manufactured goods?
This valuable mineral was traded across the Sahara and used to preserve food; The chemical name for this common mineral is NaCl.
What is salt?
This animal allowed traders to carry goods across the desert for long distances.
What is the camel?
This group of people profited from European trade.
Who are the African leaders?
This city became an important center of Islamic scholarship in Africa.
What is Timbuktu?
The demand for slaves grew because Europeans needed workers for these.
What are plantations?
These African storytellers were responsible for relaying information to their respective communities.
Who were griots?
Europeans called this West African region the “land of gold.”
This kingdom grew powerful along the Congo River before being weakened by the slave trade.
What is Kongo?
Christian missionaries often failed because Africans already held these beliefs.
This trade caused gender imbalances in African societies.
What was the slave trade?
This economic activity made cities and kingdoms wealthy.
What is trade?
This city became a major center of trade and Islamic learning in West Africa.
What is Timbuktu?
This East African civilization grew wealthy from Indian Ocean trade.
What is the Swahili civilization?
Africans often blended Islam or Christianity with this existing belief system.
What are African customs and traditions?
DAILY DOUBLE: The African slave trade weakened kingdoms and increased this problem.
What is warfare or instability?
This system exchanged African slaves for European goods and American crops.
What is triangular trade?