Ghana
The people of Ghana called their homeland this.
What is Wagadu?
The Mali empire was located in this geographic region of Africa.
What is the Sahel?
What is the Niger?
The desert in Africa on the northern side of all three African empires.
What is the Sahara?
The 15th century refers to this period of time.
What are the 1400s?
The Ghanaian empire was located between these two rivers.
What are the Senegal and the Niger?
The geographic region in Africa where the Ghana, Mali, and Songhai empires were located (chance for bonus points)
The outskirts of an Empire, or other places in the Empire distant from the center of power
The periphery
The ocean to the west of West Africa
What is the Atlantic?
What is a social hierarchy?
The traditional name for the Ghanaian Empire.
What is Wagadu?
The two most important goods traded during the era of the Mali Empire
What is gold; what is salt?
The Songhai conquered and replaced this empire.
What is Mali?
The geographic region just south of the Sahara
Kinship is a social tie based off of one or more of these three social relations.
What is blood, marriage, and adoption?
Ghana grew wealthy due to these being placed on traders.
What is taxes?
The most famous ruler of the Malian Empire
Who is Mansa Musa?
A system that artificially delivers water to crops.
What is irrigation?
The type of environment to the south of all three African empires (chance for bonus points)
Gold-rich forest/tropical savannah
What is a griot?
The belief of spirituality in plants, natural objects, and natural phenomena.
The people who practice Islam
What is a Muslim?
What is 1471?
The sea to the north of Africa.
What is the Mediterranean?
The pilgrimage that Muslims must try to make at least once in their lives.
What is hajj?