Arabian Peninsula
This city was a center of trade and was established during the Abbasid rule.
What is the city of Baghdad?
This empire is located in
What is Western Africa?
The empire of Ghana got its name from
What is Ghana the first ruler of the Empire?
The two items that were mainly traded in Mali were
What is gold and salt?
This type of lifestyle was common in the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula.
What is nomadic?
This large arid area made it difficult to grow agriculture in the area of North Africa
What is the Sahara Desert?
This river helped Mali have access to trade routes
What is the Niger River?
The area was rich in gold, ivory and
Along with religion this was an unexpected thing traded along the routes in Africa
What is the language of Arabic?
The Persian Empire thrived due to their advanced technology of
What is irrigation systems or Qanats?
Three major rivers that Ghana had access to included
Due to the arid and semi-arid regions in this empire people hose a _____ lifestyle
Nomadic
Farmers in this region had more access to growing crops and raising animals due to the _____ temperatures and climate.
What is tropical?
In the Arabian peninsula they traded spice and
This empire developed one of the first public libraries.
What is the Abbasid empire?
Negative things that came out of the use of the Niger River included pollution and when the Portuguese arrived and made it known as the
The religion practiced there
What is Islam?
Some of the items they were able to grow included sorghum, millet and
What is rice?
In the 14th century this traded item in Cairo was the cause of the fall of Cairo's city to the Ottoman empire.
What is the Bubonic Plague?
The Persian empire was overtaken by
What is the Ottoman empire?
This empire, though mostly all desert, still thrived because of the type of land formation it was on.
What is a peninsula?
Timbuktu was an important city because it was along the
What is the trans-Saharan caravan trade route?
One of the more successful trades the people of Ghana had was
What is iron-workers?
This was the name of the center of trade in Mecca.
What is a souk?