Vocabulary
Metal that is found in rock.
What is iron?
They became the first great trading state in West Africa.
What is Ghana?
This power arose when Ghana left West Africa without a major power.
What is the empire of Mali?
African traditions had been passed down orally until scholars wrote them down around this time.
What is the early 1900's?
Another name for King
What is mansa?
This is the process used to extract iron from rock.
What is smelting?
This is how Ghana kings made their money.
What is taxing salt and other goods and they entered and departed the city?
These were the geographical advantages from being along the Niger river.
What is fertile farm land and transportation on the river?
Along with story telling, griots also had these different roles.
What are historians, educators, and advisors.
What is oral tradition?
The Nok used these tools to farm.
What are axes, picks, and hoes.
Trade goods included salt, gold, slaves and these other items.
What are weapons, horses, and bananas?
He is the descendant of Sundiate Keita and becomes king of Mali in 1307.
Who is Mansa Musa?
Griots also used these as they told their stories.
What are instruments?
The people who settled in what is now the country of Nigeria
Who are the Nok?
This caused damage to the ecosystem in West Africa.
What is deforestation?
West Africa didn't have this until traders brought Arabic to the area.
What is written language?
Mansa Musa oversaw the construction of this.
What is the Great Mosque?
Actors and dancers were used during storyteller to do this.
What is memorable and exciting?
Fire baked clay used to create unusual sculptures of humans
What is terra cotta?
These are about 12 inches high and cone shaped. They have elaborate hairstyles and triangular eyes.
What are terra cotta Nok figures.
This is why the kingdom of Ghana ended.
What is the soil became unproductive and people migrated to richer lands?
In the 1500's, Timbuktu became know for this.
What is the scholarly and religious center of West Africa?
What is keeping the past alive?