Geography
3rd longest river in West Africa, and was central to trade and farming in Mali and Songhai.
What is the Niger River?
a raw material that can be bought and sold
What is a commodity
These West African storytellers preserved history orally.
What are griots?
Mansa Musa was the king of this West African empire.
What is Mali?
This city became the center for Islamic learning in West Africa.
What is Timbuktu?
Largest hot desert in the world. It made trade difficult but also connected West Africa to North Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
West Africans traded this valuable metal for salt.
What is gold?
A very famous Disney movie which features a monkey as a Griot.
What is the Lion king?
In 1324, Mansa Musa made a religious journey to this city.
What is Mecca?
The belief that spirits exist in nature, such as in trees, rivers, and animals.
What is animism?
This city on the Niger River was a major center of trade
What is Djenné?
The valuable mineral from the desert used to preserve food and add flavor.
What is salt?
How do Griots deliver thier information?
Orally - stories, songs, poetry
Mansa Musa practiced this religion.
What is Islam?
West Africans honored these family members because they believed they could guide and protect the living.
Who are ancestors? / What is ancestor worship?
This body of water creates the west coast of West Africa and helped with trade.
What is the Gulf of Guinea?
What caused cities to develop in West Africa
Trade routes
Griots often included this in their storytelling, often short pieces of advice or a general truth.
What is a Proverb?
Mansa Musa brought huge amounts of this with him on his pilgrimage.
What is gold?
This religion spread to West Africa through trade with North African merchants.
What is Islam?
Due to the gold and salt trade, West Africa had great power and influence over these two countries
What is Asia and Europe?
Giving out so much gold in cities like Cairo caused this effect on its value.
What is inflation?
What is the responsibility of the West African Griot?
preserving traditional practices.
What two pillars of Islam did Mansa Musa practice on his journey to Mecca?
What is Pilgrimage and Almsgiving.
When Islam spread into West Africa, people did this to keep their old beliefs while adopting new Islamic practices.
What is they mixed religion with tradition?