Religion
What is hajj?
What is the Islamic pillar of men making a pilgrimage to Mecca once in their lifetimes?
What is an economy?
What is the money and trading of an Empire?
Where is the Empire of Mali located in the world?
What is western Africa?
What is a "Mansa?"
What is a king of the Empire of Mali?
What was the largest settlement in the Empire of Mali?
What is the city of Timbuktu?
What religion was popular in the Empire of Ghana?
What is Islam?
What resources did the Empire of Mali trade most often, especially in the city of Timbuktu?
What is gold and salt?
What river runs through the Empire of Mali?
What is the Niger River?
What religion did Mansa Musa practice?
What is Islam?
What type of city was Timbuktu?
What is a commercial and cultural center of West Africa?
What type of Islamic building did Mansa Musa build in Timbuktu and other Malian cities?
What is great mosques?
Which economic activity was the basis for most of the wealth and power of the West African empires of Ghana and Mali?
What is trading?
What massive geographic feature was the Empire of Mali close to?
What is the Sahara Dessert?
What did Mansa Musa bring with him on his hajj to Mecca?
What is camels, gold, and servants?
What made Malian Muslim women different than Muslim women living in the Middle East at the time?
What is they experienced more social freedom?
What caused Islam to spread into Ghana and Mali?
What is cultural diffusion?
What did the government of the Empire of Mali do to get a cut of the trade money?
What is instill a tax?
What impact did the Niger River have on the formation of the Empire of Mali?
What is allowed for easy transportation of goods/people and gave access to water?
When Mansa Musa visited cities during his travels, what did he do in every city?
What is buy goods and give alms to the poor?
What was language like in the Empire of Mali?
What is people spoke a variety of languages?
What was a significant effect of Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage to Mecca?
What is Islamic learning and culture expanded in Mali?
What did caravan routes in West Africa encourage?
What is cultural diffusion?
What are the two Empires that Mali was closest to?
What is Ghana and Songhai?
What did Mansa Musa's trip to Mecca allow him bring back to the Empire of Mali?
What is Islamic education and innovations?
What did Europeans think of the Empire of Mali after Mansa Musa went to the Middle East?
What is they thought Mali was a place filled with gold?