Geography of Africa
The name of the largest desert in the world
What is the Sahara?
This resource was used by early Ghanans to gain military superiority over their counterparts
What is iron?
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Timbuktu became the center for this during the Malian empire
What is Scholarship/Islamic Scholarship
This type of climate region is dense with trees, and experiences heavy precipitation
What is the rainforest?
This group of Muslim crusaders invaded the empire of Ghana and established one of the first footholds of Islamic civilization in Western Africa.
Who are the Almoravids?
This religion was practiced by the likes of Mansa Musa and his followers
What is Islam?
This term is what we call it when a person or group swaps their religious beliefs.
What is conversion.
This type of climate region holds wide open grasslands with sparse vegetation
What is the savannah?
Ghana employed a system of ________ _________ in order to ensure their economy thrived, wherein people took specific jobs to maximize efficiency.
What is labor specialization?
This was the primary method of exchange between African Traders
What is Silent Barter?
Mansa Musa was so wealthy that his travels caused this in the places that he stayed!
What is Inflation?
This body of water provided the people of West Africa with transportation, fertile soil, and water
What is the Niger River?
Because of a lack of written records, historians have had to rely primarily on this to retrace West Africa's history
What is Oral History?
This religious practice/obligation was completed by Mansa Musa all the way from Mali!
What is a pilgrimage to Mecca (the hajj)?
This ruler was the last of 12 children to survive, and eventually overthrew the "Sorcerer King" of Ghana.
Who is Sundiata?
This fertile strip of land that divides desert from wetter areas, and its name means "shore" in the Arabic language.
What is the Sahel?
Name one of the many reasons that the Malian Empire Fell
The empire got too big, there were numerous attacks from invaders, and after Sundiata the remainder of the leaders were weak.
The Trans-Saharan Trade Route had developed as early as ______ AD/BC