West African Empires
West Africa was rich in these two resources.
What are gold and salt?
This is a large, Islamic empire of the post-classical period.
What is a caliphate?
When the Roman Empire fell, the Eastern Roman Empire became this.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
When the Roman Empire fell, the Western Roman Empire became a collection of these.
What are Middle Age Kingdoms?
This is defined as a time or an event in which a significant and lasting change occurs.
What is a turning point?
Due to cultural diffusion, this was spread from the Middle East to West Africa.
What is Islam?
What is the Middle East?
This Byzantine Emperor is known for having significantly expanded the territory of the empire.
Who is Justinian the Great?
This is a complex socio-economic system that was popular in the Middle Age Kingdoms between 800 and 1400 CE.
What is feudalism?
This is a challenge or a problem that society has been discussed across time.
What is an enduring issues?
Mansa Musa was the emperor of this empire.
What is the Mali Empire?
This was the most powerful caliphate of the post-classical period.
What is the Abbasid Caliphate?
This was the massive military and social undertaking intended to reclaim the glory of the Roman Empire.
What is the Reconquest of the West?
In a feudal system, these people, who distribute land to Lords, are the second most powerful.
Who are kings or monarchs?
These are the specific things (conflicts, belief systems, technological innovations, etc.) that shape the history of a time period and a place.
What are historical circumstances?
This was the center of wealth and learning in West Africa.
What is Timbuktu?
This was the center of wealth and learning in the Islamic world.
What is Baghdad?
Who are peasants or serfs?
This person was at the top of the feudal social hierarchy.
Who is the Pope?