Islam
The holy book of Islam.
What is the Qur'an?
The name of the world's largest desert, located in Northern Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
The civilization that controlled the Gold-Salt trade in the post-classical era.
What was Mali?
This was the most popular product traded across the Indian Ocean.
What are spices?
Cuneiform, from Mesopotamia, was a type of this.
What is writing?
The name of Islam's rules.
What are the Five Pillars of Islam?
True or False: Africa has a very diverse geography.
What is: true?
The wealthy leader of Mali; he made the hajj to Mecca.
Who was Mansa Musa?
This was the blended language of East Africa.
What is Swahili?
Monotheism means the belief in how many gods?
What is one?
The language that is associated with Islam.
What is Arabic?
The name of the river where Egypt was located.
What is the Nile?
The two items traded at equal value across the Sahara Desert.
What were salt and gold?
The religion that spread from the Arabian peninsula to East Africa.
What is Islam?
The device used by Muslims to determine time, place and location was called this.
What is the Astrolabe?
The name of the holy city for Islam.
What is Mecca?
The grassy plains south of the Sahara.
What is the Sahel?
The great city of culture and learning in West Africa.
What is Timbuktu?
Give one example of cultural diffusion in East Africa.
What is: Swahili language, Islam spreading, architecture, etc?
This was invented in China during the Han dynasty, and was used to create books and the civil service test.
What is paper?
The name (in Arabic) of the trip, or pilgrimage to the city of Mecca.
What is the hajj?
The winds that blow across the Indian Ocean and were very good for trade.
What are Monsoon Winds?
This animal made it easy to cross the Sahara Desert.
What is a camel?
The type of boat used in Indian Ocean trade.
What was the dhow?
The end goal of Buddhism.
What is Nirvana?