Geography
What was the main river for West African trade?
The Niger River
What made farming in West Africa more efficient?
What is "iron tools"?
Why would traders pay taxes to trade in the Ghana Empire?
Ghana kept the trade routes and area safe.
The new language brought by Islam to West Africa.
What is Arabic?
The famous West African ruler of Mali who went on the Hajj?
Who is Mansa Musa?
Name three of the five regions of Africa?
What is West, North, East, Central, or South Africa
An archaeologist finds a bone that looks like it may have been whittled into an arrowhead. This object is probably an:
What is an "artifact"?
The vegetation zone that Ghana and Mali Empires occupied (*were located in)
What is the savanna?
What brought the religion of Islam to West Africa?
What is "trade"?
Which direction did the North Africans head to sell their salt in Ghana? Which direction did the gold miners travel to sell their gold in Ghana?
North Africans = south Miners = north
Describe the savanna vegetation zone
tall grasses with a few scattered trees
Who joined together into villages of 100-200 persons for work help, protection, and trade?
What are "extended-families"?
The camel is a key part of this trade across a huge vegetation zone. Islam was spread by this trade. This type of trade led to the development of great kingdoms.
What is "trans-Saharan" trade?
or What is the "gold & salt" trade
Name two ways that decoration/style of textiles or objects were affected by the influence of Islam
Geometric patterns on clothes, verses & Arabic calligraphy from Qur'an on objects, and Arabic style of robes
Name two reasons why salt was important to West Africans and considered very valuable:
What is "salt preserved meat, flavored food, and was needed in a person's diet to replace lost salt from perspiration".
What are the four vegetation zones in correct order from north to south in West Africa?
Sahara Desert, Sahel, Savanna, and Rainforest
Because of iron tools, it led to (two things)...
a surplus of food, more trade, and people learning other crafts, which they could trade
Name 4 general or specific facts about Mansa Musa's hajj.
What is there was a lot of gold, they traveled from Niani to Mecca, they traveled by camel, tens of thousands of people went, he had slaves, many servants, they traveled hundreds of miles, etc.
Name two things that changed in government and law with the introduction of Islam.
What is succession became patrilineal, shari'ah law was adopted, and emirs lead the government.
Name the city and University that were at the center of education in an Islamic West Africa?
What is Timbuktu and University of Sankore.
The land specifically under this desert is referred to generally as "___ - S___" Africa
- AND -
Name the two rivers the Ghana and Mali Empires were between
What is sub-Saharan?
AND
The Senegal and the Niger Rivers
How did kingdoms develop in West Africa?
What is wealthy merchants charged taxes and used this money to build armies which conquered other cities and forced to pay tribute.
Name two countries we read about that wanted West African gold and specifically why.
What are:
Italy - to make coins and
China - as a trade item for their goods (silk, porcelain, etc)?
Name five subjects that were studied at the Islamic Universities in West Africa
What is the Qur'an, law, literature, medicine, surgery, astronomy, mathematics, physics, chemistry, philosophy, geography, art, or history?
Name the most famous salt mine in the Sahara and what mountains did the North Africans who picked it up come from?
Taghaza and the Atlas Mountains