Geography of West Africa
This ocean borders West Africa to the west.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
A dry region with very little rainfall.
What is a desert?
An object made by humans that gives clues about the past.
What is an artifact?
This kingdom was the first powerful West African empire.
What is Ghana?
Two most valuable goods traded across the Sahara.
What are gold and salt?
This large desert covers much of North Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
A grassy region with scattered trees and is good for farming and grazing.
What is tropical grassland?
This early West African culture is known for ironworking.
Who were the Nok?
This kingdom became wealthy from gold and salt trade.
What is Mali?
This network connected Africa, Europe, and Asia.
What is the trans-Saharan trade?
This river helped West African civilizations trade and farm.
What is the Niger River?
This zone has heavy fainfall and dense trees.
What is the broadleaf evergreen forest?
This process allowed people to make tools from iron ore.
What is smelting?
This kingdom controlled the most territory at its height.
What is Songhai?
Goods or money paid to a ruler for protection.
What is tribute?
This continent is south of Europe and includes West Africa
What is Africa?
This vegetation zone has thorny plants and short grasses.
What is semidesert?
This ancient city showed archaeologists that West African cities existed in ancient times.
What is Jenne-Jeno?
This city was a center of trade and learning in Mali.
What is Timbuktu?
Traders used these animals to cross the desert.
What are camels?
This geographic region lies between the Sahara and the savanna.
What is the Sahel?
The vegetation zone located between semidesert and the broadleaf evergreen forest.
What is tropical grassland?
This technology helped farming and hunting become more efficient and allowed pursuit of other jobs.
What is ironworking?
This West African kingdom rose to power last.
What is Songhai?
This made West African kingdoms wealthy and powerful.
What is trade?