Empire 1
The first of the three great empires
What is Ghana?
The second of the great empires.
What is Mali?
The third and last of the West African empires.
What is Songhai?
In what part of Africa were these empires located?
west africa
True or false:
Ghana was as advanced as our modern nations today in terms of having advanced weapons, peace treaties, a large economy, armies, and trade.
TRUE
A resource that Ghana had lots of.
What is Gold?
Who was Mansa Musa?
The founder of Mali, and its most famous king
Why is it an advantage to live alongside a river in this time period?
Closer to trade, can travel easily, and the water would be great for farming.
Name the river that ran through the three empires.
Name the desert that lies to the north of the three empires.
What are the Niger River and the Sahara Desert?
What items did the Portuguese trade with the West Africans?
Manufactured goods for gold and salt.
the 1st Exportation of slave labor from West Africa to _______ began in the early 1240s AD.
the Islamic world
What are 3 or 4 items that Mali traded?
Gold, salt, copper, slaves, and kola nuts.
What were the major trade items in Songhai?
Gold, salt, and the enslaved
Which empire was the largest?
Songhai, which covered over 2,000 miles.
What did the empires get most of their power from?
Control of gold and salt mines and control of trade routes.
What language did the West African traders speak?
They spoke Arabic
What are the cities that Mansa Musa traveled to?
Mecca and Cairo
Songhai expanded its territory from the previous _____ Empire
Mali
Whose generosity sparked inflation in Mali?
Mansa Musa
During the very prosperous reign of the Ghana and Mali empires, what was happening in Europe?
The plague, or the black death.
Africa is rich in minerals. List four minerals found in all of Africa?
Gold, copper, iron, diamonds, salt.
The capital of Mali is?
What is Timbuktu
Songhai Empire lasted from 1400 AD to ______ AD.
1600 AD
The first country to trade European goods with Songhai.
What is Portugal?
Mansa Musa, with all his generosity and wealth, ordered the construction of these two buildings everywhere he went.
Universities and Mosques