The Rise of Ghana in West Africa
This trade item from outside the region that West Africans needed most.
What is salt?
The main reason Sundiata is remembered in legends
What was by founding the Mali empire.
Kush interacted most closely with this other African civilization.
What was Axum?
A group of people descended from a common ancestor.
What is a lineage?
The earliest civilizations in West Africa formed here.
Where is along the Niger and Senegal rivers?
This brought world attention to Mali.
What was Mansa Musa's hajj.
Axum’s adoption of Christianity shows its connection to this area.
What is the Greco-Roman world.
Historians study African oral traditions mainly to do this.
What is to learn about events not preserved in writing.
This benefits a society by allowing people to become experts at different jobs
What is labor specialization?
The language of Songhai law and learning.
What was Arabic?
The wealth of East African city-states was based on this.
What is trade?
In most traditional African religions, followers honored this.
What are ancestors?
The way rulers of Ghana became wealthy.
What is through controlling the gold supply
The deciding factor in the collapse of Songhai.
What was it was invaded by a foreign army with guns?
The main cause of the development of Swahili culture.
Which was trade across the Indian Ocean?
The main role of a griot.
What is to preserve cultural traditions?
The religion did North African traders brought to Ghana.
What is Islam?
A legacy from the empires of Mali and Songhai.
What is the languages they established are still spoken today?
Rulers of Axum gained power and wealth by doing this.
What was controlling trade routes?
West African villages were made up of people of different ___.
What is clans?