Geography
This body of water is off the coast of West Africa, and it is part of the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Gulf of Guinea?
This is the belief that certain animals, plants, and locations have spirits.
What is animism?
Ghana gained influence in Asia and Europe by controlling the trade of these two resources. Later, Mali and Songhai gained influence in the same way.
What are salt and gold?
This person is responsible for making a pilgrimage to Mecca and spreading Islam in West Africa.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This is a major trade city in West Africa where a Great Mosque was built.
This is likely a reason that Ghana, Mali, and Songhai all developed in the same region.
What is the location gave access to valuable resources and commodities.
This person is responsible for preserving traditional practices and passing down oral histories through storytelling.
What is a griot?
This desert to the North of Ghana is the largest in the world and contains the valuable resource of salt.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This city was a center of trade and Islamic learning in Mali.
What is Timbuktu?
After the famous Mansa Musa died, this kingdom was left weakened, and Songhai was able to break away from it.
What is Mali?
This geographical feature that Ghana, Mali, and Songhai were established along also likely assisted in trade.
What is the Niger River?
Mansa Musa's pilgrimage to Mecca is evidence that this religion had an impact on West African cultures.
What is Islam?
Ghana became rich by taxing merchants traveling along this.
What is the Trans-Saharan Caravan Trade?
Mali conquered this West African Empire.
What is Ghana?
In Songhai, this religion was named the official religion. In practice, it was mixed with traditional African beliefs.
What is Islam?
This is how Djenne and Timbuktu are similar.
What is - They are both centers of learning and trade?
After these were built connecting the Middle East to West Africa, cities (like Djenne and Timbuktu) developed in West Africa, allowing Islam to spread.
What are trade routes?
Through trade, West African kingdoms, like Ghana, were connected to these other two continents.
What are Europe and Asia?
Mansa Musa travelled on a pilgrimage to Mecca as part of following Islam, but that isn't all he wanted to do. This was his other primary motive.
What is - To show the wealth of Mali?
While these cities existed in other empires, they were especially important centers of trade and Islamic learning in Songhai.
What are Timbuktu and Djenne?
Regional trade brought these two things to West Africa.
What are wealth and new ideas?
This is the main reason that ancestors are worshiped in traditional indigenous West African culture.
What is - Ancestors can impact a person's daily life?
These two things helped Ghana produce enough food for their growing population.
What are fertile soil and iron tools?
Griots credit this king for Mali's rise.
Who is Sundiata Keita?
By this year, Songhai was the largest empire in West Africa.