Geography
Mansa Musa
Askia the Great
Empires
Vocabulary
100
Koumbi
What is Ghana's Capitol?
100
Why Mansa Musa impressed people on his hajj.
What is his gold?
100
Special departments and a professional army.
What are the government changes by Askia the Great?
100
Ghana became powerful because...
It controlled the gold and salt trade
100
Includes the father, mother, children, and close relatives in one household.
What is and extended family?
200
A strip of land that divides the desert from wetter areas
What is the Sahel?
200
The importance of Mansa Musa's hajj.
He became famous and introduced Mali to the world
200
Askia divided the territory into...
5 provinces.
200
He brought Arabic scholars and architects to Morocco to create libraries to help others learn.
Who is Mansa Musa?
200
The belief that bodies of water, animals, trees, and other natural objects have spirits.
What is animism?
300
A source of water, food, and transportation.
What is the Niger River?
300
Mansa Musa built schools for the study of...(need 2 answers)
the Qur'an and Arabic.
300
Askia came to power after defeating..
Who is Sunni Baru?
300
Muslim groups from the North who cut off trade routes and used overgrazing
Who were the Almoravids?
300
West African storytellers.
Who are griots?
400
The world's largest desert.
What is the Sahara?
400
The holy book you would read in Mali.
What is the Qur'an?
400
Askia encouraged this religion.
What is Islam?
400
The religious beliefs in Mali?
What is Islamic?
400
Marking sacred places, offering food, sing songs, and share stories, are all ways of...
Honoring the ancestors.
500
A flat grassy region with scattered trees
What is the savannah?
500
The important cities Mansa Musa caputred.)(3)
What are Timbuktu, Dejenne, and Gao?
500
Askia encouargaged the study of medicine, science, grammar, and law by...
opening schools and universities.
500
The reason for development of major West African cities
What is trade and population growth in the regions?
500
Most of West Africa did not have a written language so they...
had oral storytelling, to remember the past and keep the history.
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