West African Empires
These three West African empires benefited from the Trans-Saharan Trade routes.
These are the three main religions in Africa.
What is Christianity, Islam, and traditional religions?
What people in African society were sold for money after being captured during war, and forced to work many different jobs and had no personal freedoms?
Who are slaves?
The connection of people based on family relationships.
What is Kinship?
Geographic region in northern Africa that contains large deserts with a few oases.
What is the Sahara Desert?
The Empire of Ghana traded gold to the North African Berbers in exchange for what mineral?
What East African nation became a strong Christian kingdom in the 300s after King Ezana became a Monophysite Christian.
What is Ethiopia?
Who is an emperor?
A group of large families connected to each other through lineage to a common ancestor.
What is a Clan?
Geographic region that is partly desert and contains some trees, and is a boundary between the Sahara Desert and Savanna.
What is the Sahel?
This important leader created the Mali Empire in 1235 and made Mali very wealthy with new gold supplies.
Who is Sundiata Keita?
Monophyiste Christians were viewed as heretics by the Catholic Church because of this view about the nature of Christ.
What is One Nature, One Person
If someone needed to communicate in urban areas, such as at markets or schools, this language was necessary to learn.
What is Arabic?
Term used to describe geographic location where several clans lived together that were related by a common ancestor.
What is a Village?
Geographic region with large grasslands and hot climate with little rainfall.
What is a Savanna?
This important leader returned from the Hajj with Islamic scholars and artists to increase the influence of Islam in the Empire of Mali.
Who is Mansa Musa?
Traditional African religion focuses on worshiping these people through prayer, making offerings, and building shrines.
What are ancestors?
People who lived in cities depend on this economic practice in order to receive a steady supply of food, crafted items, and other materials at a market.
A region of villages is known as an ethnic group, which contains these three characteristics.
What is Culture, Language, and Identity?
This city became a center of education and scholarship in the Empire of Mali under the successes of Mansa Musa.
What is Timbuktu?
This leader of the Songhai Empire strengthened Islam in West Africa by appointing Islamic judges and writing laws in Arabic.
Who is Askia Muhammad?
This religion is responsible for united West African under one language, and creating an educational community in Timbuktu and other important cities.
What is Islam?
Most of African history is not recorded because African culture passed down history using this tradition through poems, stories, and proverbs.
What is Oral Tradition?
This culture developed in East Africa through trade with the Arabs and India, and embraced Islam around 700.
What is Swahili?
According to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, what important religious artifact to their priests claim that have hidden away that is connected to the Old Testament?
What is the Ark of the Covenant (Ten Commandments)?