Mansa Musa and the Salt/Gold Trade
The wealthiest man ever... former King of the Mali Empire.
Who is Mansa Musa
To explain how or why something came to be.
What is a Creation Myth/Story
The Maya settled here
Where is the Yucatan Peninsula (Or Southeastern Mexico)?
The Aztec settled here
What is Central Mexico, and/or Sierra Madre Mountains?
The Inca settled here
What is the Andes Mountains? (Andean Region and western South America are all acceptable answers)
Libraries, Mosques, and Schools
What is things Mansa Musa established?
When "something" intends to guide people in a creation myth.
What is a sign or help from gods/deities?
One way the Maya modified their environment was to do this.
What is built pyramids with temples on top used to honor their gods, built stone cities, built ball courts, observatories (teacher discretion)
One way the Aztec modified their environment was this.
What is built roads, highways and bridges, flat top pyramids to honor their gods?
One way the Aztec modified their environment was this.
What is Terrace farming - steplike farming land to help with water irrigation and to help grow crops on the side of a mountain, stone cut cities, store houses. (any of these answers will work)
In the Sahara Desert, this item was a natural resource.
What is Salt?
This is typically at the bottom of a creation myth as a way to teach others.
What is the lesson learned by the civilization?
The Maya used this as their currency
What are Cacao Beans?
The Aztec used this as their currency
What are Cacao Beans?
What is it helped to expand empire, common language for unity, not going hungry (Must have at least one of the answers)
In the Savannahs of West Africa, this was a natural resource.
What is Gold
In the African Bushmen Creation Myth, people and animals originally came from here.
Where is under the earth?
These had 365 days and religious ones had 260 days. Every 52 years they aligned and the Mayans Celebrated the end of that Cycle.
What are calendars?
These were an important mode (form) of transportation in Tenochtitlan?
What are canoes? (City was built on an island and canals were constructed everywhere)
This is the climate zone found on the coast of the Inca empire (wait for image...)
Mansa Musa caused this to happen when he overwhelmed economies by giving them gold
What is Inflation?
This usually is the cause for why the Civilization came to be
What is the struggle?
This is the purpose of Maya observatories
To look at the star and planets. (They used these observatories to develop their solar calendar.)
This is where the Aztecs got some of their religious ideas from.
What are the other Mesoamerican Civilizations? (ex Maya and Olmec)
These are the three ways the Inca civilization declined
What is civil war, disease, and Spanish Conquistadors