People
Place
Trade
Achievement
Miscellaneous
100
True or False
1. The slave trade began with European contact with Africa.
2. Africans enslaved their enemies and traded them for goods.
3. As the slave trade increased, Africa’s contact with the Muslims grew.
What is 1. False, 2. true, 3. True?
100
This kingdom gained control of the valuable trade routes and became a powerful empire by taxing the products coming in and out.
What is Ghana?
100
This was use to control trade through Ghana.
What is paying tax?
100
This famous ruler of Mali started libraries for Islamic learning, built mosques, and making his kingdom the center of trade, culture, and learning.
Who was Mansa Musa?
100
These are people descended from the same ancestors.
What are Clans?
200
This lawyer was responsible for providing us with the information that we have on West Africa today
Who was Ibn Battuta?
200
These cities became center of trade, scholarship, and learning.
What are Timbuktu and Djenne?
200
These items were the most valuable for trade by West Africa.
What is gold and salt?
200
This was the first of the major West African trade empires.
What is Ghana?
200
This is the belief that spirits or souls are found in all natural objects.
What is animism?
300
In this year, Mansa Musa had a pilgrimage to Mecca.
What is 1324 CE?
300
This river in West Africa was used often for trade.
What is the Niger River?
300
Trade in West Africa was possible because each kingdom provided these for the traders on the Trans-Saharan Trade Routes.
What are armies to protect the traders against invaders?
300
Which of the West African Empires was the wealthiest and was the center of learning.
What is Mali?
300
The traditional religions in Africa practiced this type of worship.
What was ancestor worship?
The Passcode is:D
400
One reason Mansa Musa went on his Hajj was to help his people's understanding of this religion.
What was Islam?
400
This is the largest desert in the world.
What is the Sahara (Desert)?
400
The adoption of Islam impacted the Mali Empire because it led Timbuktu as a center of Islamic ___________.
What is learning?
400
The increase of ______ _______helped spread Islam to Africa.
- Local Trade
- National Trade
- International Trade
- European Trade
Who is International Trade?
400
These are storytellers who used oral tradition and stories to teach young West Africans.
What are griots?
500
Griots used _____ ____________ to share the African culture and history to the village.
What is oral traditions?
500
This kingdom became powerful and wealthy after Ghana.
What is Mali?
500
This trade route helped the spread of Islam throughout Africa.
What are the Trans-Saharan trade routes?
500
This art form was made for religious rituals
What are wooden masks?
500
This body of water is located at the mouth of the Niger River?
What is the Gulf of Guinea?