West Africa Empires
This empire was West Africa's largest.
What is Songhai?
This area, further south of the Sahara, is where West Africans were able to grow grains such as millet and rice.
What is the savanna?
What tradition involves honoring and respecting family members who have died?
Ancestor worship
This is the term for trade across the Sahara desert.
What is trans-Saharan trade?
What desert is located north of West Africa?
Sahara Desert
Rulers collected this from the people they conquered. Another word for tax.
What is tribute?
The longest river in West Africa.
What is the Niger?
This resource was a source of power for all three kingdoms of West Africa.
What is gold?
In many indigenous African traditions, people believed humans could have relationships with what supernatural beings?
Deities
What major river helped West African kingdoms grow?
Niger River
This is the process by which iron ore is turned into iron for tools and weapons.
What is smelting?
These mountains had to be crossed before entering the Sahara desert.
What are the Atlas Mountains?
Which kingdom became powerful after the decline of Ghana?
Mali
This made travel across the Sahara easier.
What is the introduction of the camel?
What two goods were especially important in Trans-Saharan trade?
Gold and salt
What belief teaches that spirits can be found in animals, plants, and parts of nature?
Animism
What ocean borders West Africa to the west?
The Atlantic Ocean
The word ghana means?
What is war chief?
The Romans used gold for this purpose?
What is to make gold coins?
What empire did Mansa Musa rule?
Mali Empire
The first ruler to practice Islam devoutly.
Who is Mansa Musa?
These people conquered Ghana and began the Mali empire.
Who are the Mande?
What is Timbuktu?
What is one artistic form that both West Africans and Muslims valued?
What are geometric designs?
What is the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca called?
Hajj