Ghana
The two most valuable resources in Ghana.
What is gold and salt?
The great king of Mali
Who is Mansa Musa?
The first and greatest king of Songhai
Who is Sunni Ali?
Zimbabwe grew wealthy from this resource.
What is gold?
Most Africans are descendants of this nomadic tribe.
What is the Bantu?
This material gave Ghana the advantage and was used in their weapons and tools.
What is iron?
The first king of Mali.
Who is Sundiata?
This king would unify Songhai after Sunni Ali's death.
Who is Askia the Great?
The Swahili coast was a mixture of these three cultures, besides African.
What is Indian, Chinese, and Arabic?
This river was used by the Ghana, Mali, and Songhai Empires.
Salt was used for these three reasons.
What is to flavor food, preserve food, and to construct buildings?
Mansa Musa was a devout follower of this religion, and made a special trip to the holiest city of said religion.
Double Points: This city in Egypt was gifted with so much gold that he caused the economy to crash for ten years.
What is Islam and a hajj.
What is Cairo?
Sunni Ali was able to make Songhai strong for these two reasons.
What is encouraging people to work together? What is organizing and strengthening Songhai?
At its height, it is believed Zimbabwe had this many people living there.
What is 18,000 people?
This African civilization would guide and protect people crossing the Sahara Desert.
Who are the Berbers?
This group of Africans were the first to use iron and to show Ghana of its benefits.
Who are the Noks?
Mansa Musa made this city a major center of Islam and learning, and is the reason much of the world's history is preserved.
Songhai would collapse for these two reasons.
What is fighting over salt and gold mines? What is disorganization?
What is the Indian Ocean?
The Sahara Desert makes up roughly this percent of Africa.
What is 30%?
These three reasons led to the decline of the Ghana Empire.
What is internal conflict? What is overgrazing? What is a war with Muslim invaders?
Mali collapsed because of these three reasons.
What is weak leadership? What is foreign invaders? What is too much territory to control?
Songhai would collapse around the same time as this other African civilization.
What is Zimbabwe?
Zimbabwe is believed to have collapsed for these two reasons.
Double Points: The Swahili Coast collapsed for this reason.
What is overgrazing and deforestation?
What is European competitors along the Indian Ocean.
Africa's geography is made up of these four major regions.
What is the sahara, sahel, savannah, and the rain forests?