Geography
Geography and Early Societies
Ghana
Influence of Islam
Culture
100

What is the largest desert in all of Africa?

What is the Sahara?

100

What made farming in West Africa more efficient?

What is iron tools.

100
What two things led to the growth of trans-Saharan trade which led to the development of great kingdoms.
What is the introduction of the camel and Islam.
100
Who first brought Islam to West Africa? Official name!
What is merchants.
100
What is a griot?
What is a historian or record keeper.
200

What is another word for Semidesert?

What is Sahel.

200

Jenne-Jeno's location made it ideal for what?

What is trade.

200
Because of its location, what role did Ghana play in North African trade?
What is middleman.
200
Who was the first West African ruler to practice Islam devoutly?
What is Mansa Musa.
200
Name two examples or oral traditions created by griots.
What is proverbs, folktales, poems, praise songs, stories.
300

What three bodies of water surround Africa?

What is the Atlantic ocean, Indian ocean, and Mediterranean Sea

300

How did extended-family communities deal with dangerous floods or enemies?

What is They joined other communities to form villages.

300
Two parts. First, how did Ghana make money from trade? Second, How did Ghana's king preserve his power?
What is by taxing traders and by maintaining a large army.
300
Name three things that changed in government and law with the introduction of Islam.
What is succession became patrilineal, leaders took on muslim titles, and shari'ah law was adopted.
300
"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.
400

What river runs through the Ghana and Mali kingdoms before dumping out into the Atlantic Ocean?

What is the Niger river.

400
What was one economic effect or result of the four vegetation zones in West Africa?
What is people from different zones traded with each other.
400
Two parts. First, What two peoples did trade with one another in West Africa and what did they trade? Second, what are two reasons that silent bartering was a good way to trade?
What is North African traders traded salt for gold from the Wangarans. Silent bartering was good because it allowed people of different languages to trade and allowed the Wangarans to keep their gold mines secret.
400
What was the most important feature of education curriculum in Muslim West Africa?
What is it was based on the studying of Islam first then the studying of a specific subject.
400
What form of West African art was painter Pablo Picasso influenced by?
What is masks.
500

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.

500
How did kingdoms develop in West Africa?
What is wealthy merchants charged taxes and used this money to build armies which conquered other cities and forced to pay tribute.
500
What are the two reasons that the empire of Ghana collapsed? Must give me the official name!
What is lack of resources and attacked by the Almoravids.
500
Why did Islam spread so rapidly in West Africa?
What is because it promoted brotherhood between believers.
500
What do West African dance movements tell us about the people dancing?
What is movements reflected the conditions people lived in. For example, forest people would move as finding their way through forest undergrowth.
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