Ghana Empire
Ancient Ghana built their empire on the trading of these two goods
What is Gold & Salt
True or false. Ancient Mali existed before the kingdom on Ancient Ghana
What is false, After Ghana's decline, Ancient Mali was formed
This river was essential to Songhai’s trade and agriculture.
What is the Niger River
Merchants traveling in a group is called what
What are caravans
A storyteller who kept history alive.
What is griot.
Name one reason the kingdom of Ancient Ghana declined
What is loss of natural resources or war with the Almoravids who conquered the capital city
Name two reasons why the people of Ancient Mali needed salt
What is to preserve their food and to replace the salt they lose by sweating
The Songhai people were known as excellent _____ and ______.
What are farmers and fisherman
Contrast the status and roles of women in the Ancient African Kingdoms to other river valley civilizations.
In Egypt and Kush, women had equal legal status and became leaders and warriors.
A payment made by one ruler or nation to another, often as a sign of submission or for protection.
What is a tribute
The Term for King in Ghana
What is Ghanas
Ancient Mali welcomed Muslim traders and adopted this religion that the traders practiced
What is Islam
This Songhai ruler “entered Timbuktu, committed gross iniquity, burned and destroyed the town, and brutally tortured many people there.” The capture of a number of trading cities, such as Timbuktu, helped establish this leaders conquests.
Who is Sunni Ali
Double Jeopardy
What is a theocracy? How is it different from monarchy?
Theocracy is a government in which the same person is both the political leader and the religious leader. Monarchy does not include overseeing religion.
This is the type of land where North Africans mined the salt they would trade.
What is the Sahara desert
Ghana grew rich by doing what to all the goods that passed through their borders
What is taxing
Ancient Mali became extremely wealthy due to this trade route
What is the Trans Saharan Trade Routes that crisscrossed west and north Africa. It heavily taxed goods, such as gold and salt, that passed through the empire. As a result, the Mali Empire grew wealthy.
The role of Askia Muhammad in Songhai’s rise to power was..
What is to expand the Songahi empire, strengthen military, spread education/ Islam?
What was different about the Nile compared to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers of Mesopotamia?
The Nile had seasonal dependable floods that were not dangerous to Egyptian people
Which West African kingdom was home to Mansa Musa and Sundiata?
What is the Mali Empire
The people in Ghana were most likely the first to produce this product
What is iron
Timbuktu was a center for...
What is trading and learning. This city was a busy market place where people came from all over world to trade goods and/or learn at the Islamic University
The Songhai Empire collapsed because the Moroccan Army invaded with this new weapon ?
What are muskets
Daily Double!!!
Early people who slowly moved south and east across Africa.
Who are the Bantu People
This is one of the only animals that can travel and work in the harsh climate of the desert.
What are camels