These people were story tellers that kept and told the history of the clan.
Who are Griots?
100
This is a connection among people by blood, marriage or adoption.
What is kinship?
100
This is a process where people focus on specific types of work in order to help the community.
What is Labor Specialization?
100
These groups are families related by blood or marriage who have common ancestors
What are clans
100
This is the name given to the large grassland areas of Africa.
What is Savannah?
200
This desert is the largest in the world and takes up most of North Africa.
What is the Sahara
200
These are areas that contain only certain types of plants.
What are vegetation zones?
200
Most people's lives centered around this type of work in West African societies.
What is Farming?
200
This is why Griots were important to African history and culture
What is they didn't have a written language?
200
These began to grow as trade started to develop in west Africa.
What are cities and states?
300
This river was important to West Africans because annual floods created rich soil for farming and it was a key route for trade.
What is the Niger?
300
North African nomads who established the trans-Saharan trade routes
Who are the Berbers?
300
What religion highly influenced West Africa's upper class
What is Islam
300
These formed the basis of West African government
What is kinship groups?
300
These people were expected to keep trade running smoothly and to perform religious ceremonies and rituals that would bring rain and provide good soil for there community
What is kings
400
What was the four main trade goods West Africa supplied North Africa?
What is gold, slaves, cattle hides and ivory
400
What three goods were brought to West Africa from the north for trade?
What is Salt, metal wares and cloth
400
What are the three main vegetation zones of Africa?
What is deserts, grasslands and rainforests
400
This Malinke chief grew to be a powerful king of the Mali Empire
Who is Sundiata?
400
One of Sundiata's greatest achievements was developing this city along the Niger River and turning it into a major trade center.
What is Timbuktu
500
Ghana kept the value of gold really high by doing this.
What is keeping the sources of gold a secret
500
He was a famous king of Mali because of his elaborate pilgrimage to Mecca
Who is Mansa Musa?
500
What did Mansa Musa bring back with him to help Mali grow and develop?
What is scholars and Architects
500
This African King gained his fame by organizing the government of the vast empire of the Songhai people
Who is Askia Muhammad?
500
What language really helped influence the trade and religious beliefs of the west African people