Achievements
This innovation significantly changed Trans-Saharan Trade across North Africa and into Sub-Saharan Africa.
"War chief"
By 700, Ghana was a kingdom located between which two rivers?
What are the Niger and Senegal?
This helped Ghana record contracts, share information, and keep other records.
What are Arabic writing and numbers?
"Emperor" in the Empire of Mali.
Sundiata was a great leader in peace and war. What did he do to improve Mali's finances, defense, and foreign affairs? (Name 2 out of 3)
He put administrators in charge of government affairs, promoted agriculture, and reestablished gold-salt trade.
These were traded between Ghana and other kingdoms from the 6th-19th century and sold in North Africa, Egypt, Arabia, Iraq, and India?
What are slaves?
This kingdom traces its history to the son of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.
What is Kingdom of Axum?
Trade of these commodities were vital to the growth of empires in Western Africa.
What is the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea?
King Ezana of Aksum claimed, "I will rule the people with righteousness and justice and will not oppress them" after he converted to which religion?
What is Christianity?
Mali's first great ruler who came to power by crushing a cruel, unpopular leader.
Who is Sundiata?
Compared to north of the Sahara, where Islam spread largely through conquest, south of the Sahara, the faith spread mostly through ________________.
What is trade?
In addition to the cost of goods, many African countries gained significant wealth through______________.
What are taxes?
Sunni Ali ruled for how many years?
What is 30?
Ruling Mali from about 1312-1332, this leader encouraged the building of new mosques at the trading cities of Timbuktu, which became one of the most important cities of the empire.
Who is Mansa Musa?
What is Axum?
Ibn Yasin and his followers spread Islam through the "land of the setting sun", in Arabic, known as the ________.
What is the Maghrib?
Who first started to use camels as transportation across vast deserts?
Who were Berber nomads?
The study of which book encouraged the spread of literacy?
What is the Qur'an?
In 1076, this group of Muslims completed their conquest of Ghana, further helping to cement Islam as a primary faith in the region.
Who are the Almoravids?
A Muslim traveler and historian who traveled the Islamic world and was impressed by Mali's justice system.
Who is Ibn Battuta?
Axum's chief seaport.
What is Adulis?
What manufacturing in Ghana produced agricultural tools, weaponry, and other implements?
What is ironmaking?
The belief that spirits living in animals, plants, and natural forces play an important role in daily life.
What is animism?
Despite wealth and learning, what did the Songhai Empire lack which led to its downfall starting in 1591?
What are modern weapons?
Ruler of the Songhai who built a professional army of war canoes and a mobile fighting force on horseback; he conquered Timbuktu from the Mali Empire and took Djenne after placing it under siege for seven years.
Who is Sunni Ali?
In the babble of languages heard in Aksum, which one stood out as the international language of the time?
Mansa Musa gave away so much gold in Cairo that the value of gold declined in Egypt for how many years?
What is 12?
What was different about many Muslim women in West Africa?
They did not wear veils (and often mingled freely with men in public).