Salt and Gold
This animal allowed caravans to trade across the desert.
What is the name of the driest part of West Africa
The Sahara Desert
The title given to a Mongol warlord.
Khan
This city was known as a center of trade, religious learning, and education during the Islamic Golden Age.
Timbuktu
What is a natural resource?
An item native to an area or climate zone that occurs without human intervention.
This area and town held the location of the salt mines.
Taghaza, a town made of salt in the Sahara Desert
Name the major river that runs through West Africa.
The Niger River
Name the three reasons the Mongols were so effective.
1. They were good military planners and fighters (dividing up new military members into other units; promoting skilled soldiers)
2. They were adaptable (they took and used new methods, flexible planning; siege-craft)
3. They were terrifying (murdered whole towns; reputation)
Name the holy text and location of worship for Muslims.
The holy text - Quran
Place of worship- Mosque
This term means the way items or resources are divided up among different areas.
Distribution
Where were the gold mines of Wangara located?
No one knows. It was kept secret. But they are somewhere in the forest zone.
What is the name of the grassland climate zone of West Africa?
The Savanna
Why did the Mongols fail to unite Japan like they did China and Korea?
What social system continued in Japan because of this.
The tsunami wrecked all of the Mongol ships before they could get to Japan.
Feudalism continued in Japan since the Mongols failed to take over.
What is the name of the holy city in Islam, and what is a trip there called?
The holy city- Mecca
The trip there- the Hajj (pilgrimage)
Name three reasons trade is important.
It allows people to get what they need even if an item or resource does not occur in their area; it improves life and allows for specialization (which improves goods); sharing ideas helps technology improve
How did the kingdoms of Ancient Ghana & Mali get so wealthy?
Their system of double taxation on trade goods, especially salt & gold.
Name the semi-desert region of West Africa.
The Sahel
What happened to the Byzantine Empire because of the Mongols?
Name the 4 main areas that were advanced during the Islamic Golden Age.
Mathematics
Geography/Navigation
Medicine
Sciences/Technology
Religious Studies (Bonus)
Name two similarities and two differences between the trans-Saharan and trans-Atlantic slave trades.
Similarities: took people away from home; forced labor; children of slaves become slaves
Differences: trans-Atlantic is more cruel, based on race/skin color, took people much further from home, almost always slavery for life, not seen as human, caused West African kingdoms to collapse
Name two reasons salt is important to West Africa and one reason North Africans wanted gold.
Salt- in preserves food; is needed to replace salt in a body when you sweat; animals need it; it tastes good
Gold- Trading on the silk road (China only accepts gold); to make coins
Name the three major kingdoms of West Africa
Ghana, Mali, & Songhai
This term is used to describe the benefits that Mongol rule had on trade routes when controlling large portions of Asia and the Middle East.
Pax Mongolica or Mongol Peace
Mathematics- creation of zero; algebra; improved mathematic formulas
Astronomy/Geography- astrolabe; naming and charting stars
Medicine- surgical procedures (corneal surgery); anatomy; cleanliness; hospitals
Name the 3 main drawbacks of trade.
Conflict over religion
Conflict through competition for resources/markets
Disease