Geography
The kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai were located in this region.
What is West Africa?
The Nok people adopted this technology as early as 500 B.C.E
What is ironworking?
This person inherited the throne after the king died, because the royal inheritance was matrilineal.
Who is the son of the king's sister?
The geographical feature that initially prevented Arab Muslims from conquering Ghana.
What is the Sahara???
The term for West African poet-musicians who pass down stories and historical accounts from one generation to another.
What are griots?
This West African kingdom was the largest.
What is Songhai?
Extended-family groups joined together for these two reasons.
What are protection and help/collaboration (control flooding, mine for gold or iron)?
Two factors that contributed to the growth of trans-Saharan trade.
What are camels and Islam?
After the Mande conquered Kumbi, they took control of the trade routes to North Africa and built this empire.
What is Mali?
The term for a story that is passed down orally and becomes part of a culture’s tradition. In addition to teaching their history, it also teaches young people morals and values.
What are folktales?
These two rivers were important to the civilizations that developed in West Africa.
What are the Niger and Senegal Rivers?
Two reasons why some villages became larger towns and cities.
What are ironworking and trade?
Ghana controlled trans-Saharan trade and grew wealthy because of this.
What are taxes on goods?
The first West African ruler of Mali to practice Islam devoutly.
Who is Mansa Musa?
A common West African style of music in which a leader plays or sings a short phrase and then a group of people answer by playing or singing a short phrase.
What is a call-and-response?
Islam originated in this peninsula before spreading to Africa.
What is the Arabian Peninsula?
The process of melting ore to extract iron or other metals.
What is smelting?
The two goods that were in most demand for trade between North and West Africa and the name of the system that allowed traders to bargain without meeting.
What are gold & salt; what is silent barter?
After the arrival of Islam, the right to rule changed and became this.
What is patrilineal- the right to rule passed from father to son.
The three instruments used by West African poet-musicians for centuries.
What are the balafon (BAH-la-fon), the ngoni (en-GOH-nee), and the kora (KOR-ah)?
Jenne-jeno was located in this vegetation zone.
What is the savanna?
The payment of this was an indication that the conquered people accepted the king's authority.
What is tribute?
Elaborate on two reasons why the kingdom of Ghana declined?
War- Muslim warriors known as Almoravids began attacking Ghana's empire.
Loss of resources- The increasing population added great stress on scarce resources, such as trees and water.
This city became famous for its community of Islamic scholars and had several universities.
What is Timbuktu?