Islam
Founder of Islam.
Who is Muhammad?
Usually traded resources.
What is salt/gold?
The purpose of the trip.
What is hajj?
Mansa of Mali.
Who is Mansa Musa?
More valuable than gold in Africa.
What is salt?
Muslims circle around what seven times for the Hajj.
What is the Kaaba?
Currency of Taghaza
What is salt?
~How far Mansa Musa traveled.
What is ~3,000 miles
Religion practiced in Mali.
What is Islam?
A place where gold lost all value (because of Mansa Musa).
What is Cairo?
Place where Muhammad saw Gabriel.
What is a cave?
The reason salt was expensive.
What is scarcity?
The amount of people that went on the Hajj with Mansa Musa.
What is 60,000?
Mali was originally what.
What is Ghana?
The amount of gold on Mansa Musa's caravan.
What is 24,000?
An amendment of the Qu'ran.
What is "Give generously for the cause of God and do not with your own hands cast yourselves into destruction. Be charitable. God loves the charitable. 2:195
Make the pilgrimage [ hajj ] and visit the Sacred House for His sake. If you cannot, send such offerings as you can afford and do not shave your heads until the offerings have reached their destination. . . . 2:196
"Make the pilgrimage in the appointed months. He that intends to perform it in those months must abstain from…obscene language, and acrimonious [angry] disputes while on pilgrimage. God is aware of whatever good you do. Provide well for yourselves: the best provision is piety [devotion to faith]. Fear Me, then, you that are endowed with understanding. 2:197
To be charitable in public is good, but to give alms [gifts of charity] to the poor in private is better and will atone for some of your sins. God has knowledge of all your actions. 2:271
Those that give alms by night and by day, in private and in public, shall be rewarded by their Lord. They shall have nothing to fear or to regret. 2:274"
Mansa Musa gave incalculable profits to.
What is Cairo
Number of slaves that carried gold in Mansa Musa's caravan.
Empire that overthrew Mali.
What is the Songhai Empire?
Ghana hid their gold here.
What is Wangara?
What is Hajj, Sawm, Zakat, Salat, Shahada.
Three reasons cowrie shells were important to Africa.
What is currency, clothes, tradition, amulets, tools, food?
The number of servants on Mansa Musa's caravan.
What is ~12,000
First ruler of Mali.
Who is Sundiata Keita?
2nd most valuable resource in Mali.
Live animals.