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100
The river that runs through West Africa and that Timbuktu is located near.
What is the Niger river?
100
Besides traditional African religions, what major world religion influenced many of the empires of West Africa?
What is Islam?
100
The Lion King of Mali.
Who is Sundiata?
100
The term for when people in a society focus on specific types of work.
What is labor specialization?
100
A West African storyteller.
What is a griot?
200
West African city that developed into a center of trade and culture during the 1200's and was developed by Sundiata.
What is Timbuktu?
200
The belief that there are spirits in all things such as people, animals, plants, and even the earth itself.
What is animism?
200
King of the Songhai Empire from 1493 to 1528.
Who is Askia Muhammad?
200
This animal became the main source of transportation for people and goods around 300 AD.
What is the camel?
200
A connection among people by blood, marriage, or adoption.
What is kinship?
300
The name for a grassland in a tropical region.
What is a Savannah?
300
A group of Muslim Arabs that came to power in North Africa during the 11th century.
Who are the Almoravids?
300
The chronological order of the three most important empires of West Africa.
What are Ghana, Mali, and Songhai?
300
The two items that were most important to trade in West Africa.
What are gold and salt?
300
The internal reasons that led to the decline of the Empire of Mali.
What are arguments over the next ruler and rebellion in newly conquered regions?
400
The name of the large desert of Northern Africa.
What is the Sahara?
400
The religion that most Berbers practiced.
What is Islam?
400
The king of Mali who made a pilgrimage to Mecca.
Who is Mansa Musa?
400
How labor specialization led to a diverse economy in West Africa.
What is the ability to focus on specific jobs instead of just a general few, means that there are many different (diverse) jobs being done.
400
The way that West Africans passed on their history with no written language or records.
What is storytelling using griots?
500
The three vegetation zones of West Africa.
What are desert, grasslands, and forests?
500
The reason why Ghana's kings still practiced their own traditional religion in addition to Islam.
What is they wanted to keep their right to rule?
500
The ways that Sundiata helped the economy of Mali (at least 2 of the 3 ways).
What are reestablishing the gold and salt trade, developing the city of Timbuktu, and supporting the development of food and cotton.
500
The role of kings in the economy of West Africa.
What is keeping trade running smoothly and performing prayers and rituals according to their traditional religion.
500
Besides trade goods, the trans-Saharan trade routes also brought these two things from the Arabic Peninsula.
What are Islam and the Arabic Language?