Geography
What are four vegetation zones in West Africa?
What is Desert, Semidesert, Savanna, and Tropical Humid
What is oral history?
History passed on through speaking.
What two things led to the growth of trans-Saharan trade which led to the development of great kingdoms.
What is gold and salt?
What is the main language of West Africa?
There are hundreds!
What is a griot?
What is a historian or record keeper.
What is another word for Semidesert?
What is Sahel.
Why did the merchants cross the Sahara?
To trade goods.
Because of its location, what role did Ghana play in North African trade?
What is traders.
What is a famine?
Extreme shortage of food.
Name two examples or oral traditions created by griots.
What is proverbs, folktales, poems, praise songs, stories.
What three bodies of water surround Africa?
What is the Atlantic ocean, Indian ocean, and Mediterranean Sea
What were Africans sent to the Americas made to do?
Work on agricultural production
First, how did Ghana make money from trade?
What is by taxing traders a
What did Thomas Sankara try to do in Burkina Faso?
Make it less poor, etc.
"Every time an old man dies, it is as if a library has burnt down." What does this proverb tell us about West African culture.
What is the importance of oral tradition and the amount of knowledge griots had.
What river runs through the Ghana and Mali kingdoms before dumping out into the Atlantic Ocean?
What is the Niger river.
What resources does West Africa have?
Agricultural products, minerals, and oil.
what are two reasons that silent bartering was a good way to trade?
Silent bartering was good because it allowed people of different languages to trade and allowed the Wangarans to keep their gold mines secret.
What is a problem in many governments in West Africa?
Corruption
Who drew the borders in West Africa?
The European colonizers
What vegetation types grow in each of the four vegetation zones?
What is nothing in the desert, small shrubs and short grass in the semidesert, tall grass and scattered trees in the Savanna, and many forms of plant life in the forest.
Which Kingdom became rich and powerful due to the Gold and Salt trade?
Ghana
What are the three most common religions in West Africa?
Christianity, Islam, and Animism
What is the largest city in West Africa?
Lagos
What is an extended family?
All the close relatives of a household