Roots of Mighty empire
a region of grassland containing scattered trees and vegetation.
What a savanna?
a system of tracing descent through the females of the family
Matrilineal
A person who passes down customs, history, legend, art, and poetry through storytelling.
What is a griot?
Where most West Africans lived.
Haste makes waste.
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
What are examples of proverbs?
a dry strip of dry grasslands on the southern border of the Sahara; also known as "the shore of the desert"
sahel
a system of tracing descent through the males of the family
patrilineal
Its ruler, Mansa Musa, led a pilgrimage to Mecca.
What is the civilization of Mali?
a person who communicates with the spirits
What is a diviner
A short saying that expresses a well known truth
What is a proverb?
a triangular-shaped landform made by mud and silt deposited at a river's mouth
delta
farm the rich soil and establish a trade empire
Why did the Nok people settle near the Niger river?
In the 1300's Arabic scholars began flocking to its centers of learning.
What is the civilization of Mali?
Honor and reverence pair to one's deceased relatives based on the believe system that their spirits live on after death and can influence the gods in one's favor.
What is ancestor worship?
Cross the river in a crowd and the crocodile wont eat you
What is an example of an African proverb
cave paintings and dried up river bed
How scholars have noted that the Sahara was lush and green in 5000 BC?
What Muslim traders brought to West Africa?
Its king was worshipped like a god.
What is the civilization of Songhai?
The relationship among family members.
What is kinship?
What is an example of an African proverb?
grassland and vegetation
what was the terrain of West Africa made up of?
Ghana was between salt mines and gold mines
How the location of West African fold and salt mines benefited Ghana?
This group ended the Songhai empire.
What was the effect of the Moroccan invasion?
What is the basis for all village life?
a penny saved is a penny earned, kill two birds with one stone.
What are examples of common proverbs?