The Letter M
The Islamic calendar is 11 days shorter than the Christian calendar because it isn’t solar, but based on the movement of the…
Moon
With a climate being dry, with hot summers and warm winters, it was better for traders to get rid of the horse and use a _____ when crossing the desert?
Camel
Who were North Africa’s first traders?
Berbers
What city became a major center for Muslim art, literature, and science?
Timbuktu
The Sahara Desert prevented the people of West Africa from having contact and trade with Europeans and Asians along which sea, unlike the northerners in Africa
Mediterranean
The capital of Ghana is well located as its halfway between the salt and gold…
Mines
Which mountains run along the coast of North Africa?
Atlas
The group primarily responsible for passing on history and telling stories?
Griots
Both Ghana and Mali controlled the ____ for _____ trade routes.
Gold for Salt
The sculpted heads made by the Nok were made of…
Terra Cotta
The capital of Ghana is ____ between the salt mines and gold mines.
Midway
Both Mali and _____ became wealthy as a result of trade.
Ghana
What a trader would most likely obtain by going to Lake Chad according to the map.
Slaves
The Sahara can be described as a sea of sand as it was like the Mediterranean taking goods from one place to another, like the religion Mansa Musa became a member of, which was …
Islam
Mansa Musa made the world aware of his wealth as he traveled to pray at the Kaaba located in which city?
Mecca
Mansa Musa enlarged Mali and made _____ pay his taxes.
Merchants
A place is the desert where water can be found and town are normally built around so travelers have a place to stop, rest, and get supplies.
Oasis
People that created sculpted heads using terra cotta to make them in West Africa
Nok
What geographic advantage did Mali have?
Plenty of rainfall
Once out of the desert, camels weren’t mandatory as traders could carry their goods on rivers near Gao, Djenne or Timbuktu, like the _____ River OR the ____ River.
Senegal or Niger
The people of Timbuktu hid these items plus books when the French and other outsiders arrived to destroy traces of their glorious past.
Manuscripts
The Islamic calendar is based on the movements of the moon, so it is…
Lunar
The people of Ghana primarily traded with them
Arabs
Any trade goods, like gold, salt or slaves is best described as a …
Commodity
The type of barter system used in Ghana to get around the fact that the people spoke many different languages that were attempting to do business with each other.
Silent Barter