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100

Name the major river we talked about in Africa that all of the empires were along.

What is the Niger river?

100
Timbuktu was the trader center of this empire
What is Mali
100
Name the two types of animal products traded in Ghana
What are ivory and ostrich feathers
100
Mansa Musa was the great leader of this empire
What is Mali
100

The Prophet Muhammad

Who founded the Islamic faith?

200
What are the two Oceans that border Africa
What are the Atlantic and the Indian
200
This empire traded iron, animal products and gold
What is Ghana
200
What two things did the Songhai empire trade
What are salt and gold
200
Mansa Musa was a member of this religion
What is Islam
200

The Holy Book, of the Islamic faith was known

What is the Quran?

300

Name of the desert that a majority of the empires were located in.

What is the Sahara desert?

300

The Niger River gave this empire rich soil to grow crops

What is the Songhai

300

Ghana empire became rich primarily because of this material.

What is gold?

300

The King of Ghana at first __________ Muslims when the Islamic Faith

What is tortured?

300

This place was known as the center of the Islamic faith.

What is the Mecca?

400

The Mali Empire rose to power after conquering this river.

What is the Niger River?

400
This empire had the first ruler to convert to Islam
What is Songhai
400

The following is not a trait of a civilization.

What is dictatorship?

400
Along the way he gave away this to the poor
What is gold
400

God-given

Mansa Musa had convinced his people that his powers were given this way?

500
Large desert in the northern part of Africa
What is the Sahara
500
This was the FIRST great trade empire
What is Ghana
500

This city that emerged as a major trading port during the Songhai Empire

What is Timbuktu?

500

He gave away so much gold, the mineral itself lost value

Who is Mansa Musa?

500

Belief that all plants and animals have a soul

What is Animism?