Trans-Saharan Trade Routes
The Trans-Saharan Trade Routes relied on this animal to make travel easier.
What is the camel?
Mansa Musa ruled this West African Empire.
What is the Mali Empire?
This religion spread widely across North and Western Africa due to trade and military conquest beginning in the mid to late 600s CE.
What is Islam?
This material commonly played an important role in trade in all medieval African kingdoms.
What is gold?
This European nation was the first to establish trade posts in Africa and began the Trans-Atlantic slave trade there.
What is Portugal?
These two resources were the most important goods traded along the Trans-Saharan Trade Routes.
What are gold and salt?
Mansa Musa spent so much gold in this city that he broke its economy.
What is Cairo?
This religion was introduced in the first century CE. It was widely practiced in Ethiopia/Aksum and saw the construction of massive stone buildings dedicated to the religion.
What is Christianity?
These 2 African "Kingdoms" were made up of many independent city-states each of which had its own ruler.
What are the Hausa States and the Swahili City-States?
What are the Benin Bronzes?
This religion was spread along the Trans-Saharan Trade Routes.
What is Islam?
In addition to building mosques, like the Djinguereber Mosque, Mansa Musa also had this built in Timbuktu.
What is a university?
This was the name given to storytellers in Sub-Saharan Africa who were responsible for preserving their people's history.
What is griot?
This kingdom was ruled by a king who was supported by advisors. The government was located in the capital of Koumbi Saleh and benefited greatly from trade. The king alone could own gold nuggets.
What is the Kingdom of Ghana?
This was a meeting that occurred from 1884-1885 at which European nations divided up the African continent.
What is the Berlin Conference?
The spread of Islam and trade on the Trans-Saharan Trade Routes led to a 'Golden Age' in this region of Africa.
What is West Africa?
What is urbanized?
This migration spread a language family that includes more than 500 different languages, but also spread technology, diseases, and cultural practices throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
What is the Bantu Migration?
This medieval African kingdom conquered neighboring territories in areas like Nubia and even Yemen across the Red Sea. It often allied with the Byzantine Empire and created its own writing system called Ge'ez.
What is Aksum?
This queen of Ndongo created a spy service and led a revolt against the Portuguese.
Who is Queen Nzinga?
This group (general name) either acted as guides or attacked caravans on the Trans-Saharan Trade Routes.
Who are pastoralists?
To show his devotion to Islam, Mansa Musa made a pilgrimage to this city.
What is Mecca?
This category of spiritual beliefs in Africa could vary greatly, but often shared some common beliefs among Bantu speakers. Some common beliefs were that a single creator-god created the world, that the creator god was supported by lesser gods and spirits, and that ancestor veneration or worship was an important practice.
What are traditional religions?
This is the capital city of a medieval African kingdom. Most of what we know about this kingdom comes from studying this ruins of the capital city. For example, they likely traded with East Africa, China, and Persia. Status here was tied to the number of cattle that a person owned.
What is Great Zimbabwe?
This Portuguese explorer conquered the Swahili City-States. He sailed all the way around Africa and reached the southwest coast of India in 1498.
Who is Vasco Da Gama?