Geography
What are two major geographical features of Southwest Asia and North Africa?
What are deserts and rivers?
Who is the founder of Islam?
Who is Muhammad?
What empire did Mehmed II the Conqueror establish?
What is the Ottoman Empire?
What language spread with Islamic culture?
What is Arabic?
What major river is in West Africa?
What is the Niger River?
What are two major trade routes that passed through this region?
What are the Silk Road and Trans-Saharan trade routes?
What is the holy book of Islam?
What is the Qur'an?
What city fell to the Ottomans in 1453?
What is Constantinople?
What group played an important role in spreading goods and ideas?
Who are merchants?
What is ancestor worship?
What is honoring the spirits of one’s ancestors?
How does geography affect settlement in these regions?
What are people settle near water sources?
What are Faith, prayer, charity, fasting, pilgrimage.
What are the Five Pillars of Islam?
What contributions did Islamic scholars make?
What are advances in math, science, and medicine?
What was commonly traded across Asia, Africa, and Europe?
Gold, salt, and enslaved people.
What is a griot?
What is a storyteller who preserves history orally?
What is animism?
What is the belief that spirits exist in nature?
What are the Sunnah and Qur’an?
What are the Sacred texts that guide Islamic life.
What role did Mehmed II play in Islamic history?
What was his expansion of Islamic rule into Europe?
What city was a key Islamic center of learning?
What is Timbuktu?
What are the major kingdoms of West Africa?
What is Ghana, Mali, and Songhai?
What city is known for its mosque and learning in Mali?
What is Djenne?
What does monotheism mean?
What is the Belief in one God?
What was significant about the fall of Constantinople?
What was its mark on the rise of the Ottomans and end of the Byzantine Empire.
How was culture shared across trade routes?
What was through stories, religion, language, and art.
Mansa Musa and his travels
Who was the King of Mali who made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca.