Ghana
What were the two major trade items that came from West Africa?
Salt and Gold
The king who caused the price of gold to decrease as a result of his extravagant hajj.
What is Mansa Musa.
African society was based on ...
What is the family.
A great piece of architecture built by the Shona people that still stands.
What is the Great Zimbabwe.
The king of Kongo who loved Portuguese culture, government, and religion.
What is Alfonso.
What were the two reasons Ghana was taken over by an Islamic group in 1076?
What are:
1. They wanted the wealth and power provided by the control of the gold and salt trade.
2. They believed that Ghana was not living out Islamic beliefs correctly.
What was Mali's justice system like according to Ibn Battuta?
Storytellers in West Africa that used song, poems, and dance to record history.
What are Griots.
How did the environment contribute to the Bantu migration?
What is the geography in South and Central (sub-Saharan) Africa was better for agriculture.
What went wrong between Portugal and Kongo?
Portugal began taking civilians as slaves without permission.
What two things did West Africans gain as a result of trading with Arabs?
What is Arabic written language and Islam.
Who said that Mansa Musa was fooling around, wasting his money, and abandoning Mali traditions?
What are the Griots.
A pilgrimage to Mecca that devout Muslims must go on at least once in their lives:
What is a Hajj.
How did the Great Zimbabwe grow in wealth and power?
What are:
1. Gained control of gold trade.
2. Taxed its traders.
What brought the Kongo and Portugal together?
What is trade.
The North African traders that brought their culture to Ghana
What is the Berbers
A city in Mali that became a center for trade and culture.
What is Timbuktu.
How do the Bantu migrations still affect Africa today?
What is language / Cultural traditions.
List one of the things that the Bantu-speaking people brought to Southern and Central Africa.
What are:
1. Iron tools
2. Yams
3. Language
King who wrote a letter to the people of Portugal asking that they stop taking Africans as slaves.
What is Alfonso.
The Islamic group that seized control of Ghana in 1076
What is the Almoravids
The first King of Mali
What is Sundiata.
List two of the vegetation zones found in West Africa.
What are
1. Savannah
2. Sahara
3. Forest
State one thing that the Great Enclosure tells us about the Shona people
Various answers could apply, I will tell you if you are right :)
The birth name of the first Christian king of Kongo.
What is Mvemba a Nzinga.