Geography
Early Societies
Ghana
Influence of Islam
Culture
100

The name of the desert in North Africa, the world's biggest desert

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

Timbuktu's location made it ideal for this

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
A cause and an effect of overgrazing

What is, too many animals eating all the grass in pastures, winds blowing away the good soil, leaving the land useless for growing or grazing. People had to move as a result.

400

What were the two most commonly traded items, allowing for empires to become established and wealthy

What is salt and gold

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

Three modern-day countries that exist where the Songhai Kingdom once thrived.

What are Mali, Niger, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Benin, Guinea, Senegal, The Gambia, Nigeria

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, and internal struggles

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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