Kingdoms
These three kingdoms were found in ancient West Africa.
What are Ghana, Mali, and Songhai?
What is extended-family communities?
Built where the Niger River intersects the Bani River, an ideal location for farming, fishing, and trade.
What is Jenne-Jeno?
The number of months required to cross the Sahara.
What is two?
Name of the succession system used in ancient Ghana.
What is matrilineal?
These two rivers led to the rise of ancient West African kingdoms.
What are the Niger and Senegal Rivers?
Family-based communities joined together to form these.
What are villages?
A city where famous salt mines were located.
What is Taghaza?
The two primary factors cited that contributed to the growth of trans-Saharan trade.
What are the introduction of the camel and the spread of Islam?
Ghana used this to control and protect this important part of the kingdom.
What is the army?
This type of event led to the growth of the three medieval kingdoms.
What is trans-Saharan trade?
Archaeologists found high walls and gates at this ancient West African village.
What is Dhar Tichitt?
What is Sijilmasa?
The number of gallons of water that camels can drink at a time.
What is 25?
The king of Ghana kept all of these in his control to ensure royal domination, allowing citizens to have the dust.
What are gold nuggets?
This kingdom was first written about in the 800s.
What is Ghana?
The two primary reasons that villages grew into cities.
What are ironworking and trade?
This location was considered to be the busiest market in West Africa.
What is Kumbi?
Caravans stopped at Taghaza and took on a load of this product before continuing south.
What is salt?
Colored items worn by soldiers in Ghana to show their rank and position within the army.
What are tunics and feathers?
This group of people first recorded the accomplishments of West African kingdoms.
What are Muslim scholars?
The first people known to have melted ore to extract iron.
What are the Nok?
This city was known for scholars, books, and schools.
What is Timbuktu?
Ancient kingdoms collected these as traders past through their countries.
What are taxes?
The primary weapon used by the army of Ghana.
What are spears?