Geography
3rd longest river in West Africa, and was central to trade and farming in Mali and Songhai.
What is the Niger River?
Type of bartering that does not require people to speak the same language
What is a silent bartering
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?
Type of music that is led by a person and the chorus follows
What is the Call and Response?
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?
A city important for trade of salt and slaves
What is Taghaza?
The valuable mineral from the desert used to preserve food and add flavor.
What is salt?
What is the name of ONE of the instruments the griots would use?
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 zone in Africa has better soil than the Savannah and is able to grow more crops.
What is the Sahel?
Trans-Saharan 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 line of succession was prominent in West Africa BEFORE Islam spread
What is matrilineal?
Due to the gold and salt trade, West Africa had great power and influence over these two continents
What is Asia and Europe?
How the kingdoms of Ghana and Mali became wealthy
What is taxation?
When did written language come to West Africa?
When Islam was adopted by the kingdoms
How did Mansa Musa promote learning?
Building schools, libraries, mosques
How did the architecture of West Africa change with Islamic influence?
The roofs used to be cone shaped, later they were flat