Geography & Environment
This body of water provided coastal trade routes and access to Europe and the Americas.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
What are tribes?
Mali rose to power after this empire declined.
What is Ghana?
Merchants crossed the Sahara using these animals known as “ships of the desert.”
What are camels?
These historians kept the memories of kings alive through storytelling.
Who are griots
This body of water formed the heart of the empires of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai.
What is the Niger River?
West Africans honored these family members, believing they influenced life on Earth.
Who are ancestors?
The most powerful of the 3 kingdoms?
What is the Mali Kingdom
This was traded from the Northern Sahara into the West?
What is salt?
Mansa Musa took one of these as a devout Muslim
What is a Hajj?
The arrival of this religion blended with traditional beliefs, changing laws and learning.
What is Islam?
Timbuktu became famous for these 2 things.
What are learning and trade?
Ghana grew wealthy mainly by taxing this activity.
What is trade?
Mansa Musa's Hajj impacted Cairo Egypt in what way?
What is causing inflation?
This harsh environment encouraged long-distance trade but made farming difficult.
What is the Sahara Desert?
Islamic learning increased in cities because leaders brought in these skilled workers.
What are scholars or teachers?
Djenne becamse know for what 2 things?
What are trade and craftsmanship?
Islamic merchants brought a system that improved record-keeping and trade deals.
What is writing / Arabic language?
Griots used this tradition to preserve history before books.
What is oral tradtion?
Located on the southern edge of the Sahara, this region allowed kingdoms to control desert-to-forest trade.
What is the Sahel?
How did Islam change societal structures of many West African tribes?
What is a change from female led families to male dominated societies.
The Largest of the 3 kingdoms?
What is the Songhai Kingdom?
Trans-Saharan literally means
What is "Across the Sahara?"
After returning from Mecca, Mansa Musa built these institutions, which encouraged literacy.
What are mosques and schools?