African Empires
This ruler of the Mali Empire is perhaps the richest person to ever live.
Mansa Musa
This trade route lasted the longest of them all - 1500 years in total.
Silk Road
In what city was Islam founded?
Mecca
What common belief system connected societies across the Sahara Desert and Indian Ocean trade networks?
Islam
What are the three Abrahamic belief systems?
Christianity, Islam, and Judaism
This was the first of the classical West African Empires, and the name for a country today located elsewhere.
Ghana
The salt and gold trade crossed the Sahara Desert, connecting the Middle East to what region?
West Africa
What Muslim holy city did Muhammad and his followers flee to escape persecution?
Medina
The city-states of the eastern African coast blended Bantu and Arabic cultural, architectural, and linguistic traditions. This became what language?
Swahili
Islam teaches that Jesus was a __________.
prophet
This empire eventually became the largest in West Africa due to its salt and gold trade.
Songhai
This East African language/culture blended cultural, architectural, and linguistic traditions, largely as a result of the Indian Ocean Trade.
Swahili
Why is the following quote from the Quran significant?
"Read in the name of your Lord, Who created, created man from a clot of congealed blood. Recite, and your Lord is Most Generous, Who taught by the pen, taught man what he did not know."
First Revelation to Muhammad
Traditionally, what indigenous religion did many peoples in Sub-Saharan Africa practice before the establishment of Muslim and Christian Kingdoms?
animism
The use of what is credited with helping the Mughals, Ottomans, and Safavids to build large empires?
gunpowder
After overtaking Ghana, the first emperor of this empire was Sundiata.
Mali Empire
What belief system did West African empires share with North African and Middle Eastern kingdoms?
Islam
What was the primary cause of the first civil war in Islamic society?
Ali ibn Abi Talib became caliph
Which culture significantly influenced Islamic mathematicians?
Indian
What resource did the region around the Niger River export most in trans-Saharan trade?
gold
This empire in southern Africa was known for its technologically advanced stone architecture.
Great Zimbabwe
The political framework of which region changed with the expansion of trade with Muslim Kingdoms?
West Africa
What led many Muslims to believe that Ali was the rightful caliph and heir of Muhammad?
They believe Muhammad implied Ali should be the next caliph in a sermon.
Muslim advancements in what helped them navigate more accurately the direction of Mecca?
Astronomy (will also accept navigation)
Under Askia Muhammad, the Arabic language became especially important in which aspect of West African life?
government