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100
Mali is located in the western part of this continent.
What is Africa?
100
A person with this type of job might grow crops like millet, cassava, and yams.
What is a farmer?
100
These types of people were the rulers of Ancient Mali.
What are rich men who controlled trade (mansas)?
100
This type of resource was mined in Mali and often traded for salt.
What is gold?
100

Ancient China, Egypt, and Mali are examples of these.

What are ancient civilizations?

200
This desert in northern Mali is the largest in the world.
What is the Sahara?
200
Because Ancient Mali had a lot of salt and gold, many people in had this job and used barter to get what they needed from other places.
What is trader (merchant)?
200
This king was also known as "the Lion King of Mali."
What is Sundiata?
200
This city had a large marketplace, universities, mosques, and a library.
What is Timbuktu?
200

Ancient China, Ancient Egypt, and Ancient Mali have this human characteristics in common.

What are farming?

300
This river was a major source of water in Ancient Mali.
What is the Niger River?
300
Farming, trading, and this specialization were the main human characteristics of Ancient Mali.
What is mining?
300
This king built mosques, libraries, universities, and schools throughout Ancient Mali.
Who is Mansa Musa?
300
In Ancient Mali this resource was considered just as valuable as gold.
What is salt?
300

Unlike Ancient Greece and Rome, Ancient Mali had this type of climate region.

What is a desert?

400
These characteristics describe Mali's climate.
What are hot and dry in the desert OR hot and rainy in the savannah?
400
This type of person was the king's top advisor and was responsible for passing on Mali's oral history and traditions.
What is a griot?
400
This is the type of government that existed in Ancient Mali.
What is monarchy?
400
Salt was considered valuable because it was used in these ways.
What are preserving food and keeping people healthy?
400

Ancient Egypt bordered this sea, but Ancient Mali did not.

What is the Mediterranean Sea?

500
These are the three main types of climates in Ancient Mali.
What are Sahara (desert), Sahel, and Savannah?
500
History and stories were not written down by griots because Mali had this type of tradition.
What is an oral tradition?
500
Mansa Musa gave out large amounts of gold as he traveled to this holy city in Saudi Arabia.
What is Mecca?
500
Because of their harsh climate, people in Ancient Mali had to focus on a few specific jobs and trade to get what they needed. In economics we give it this name.
What is economic specialization?
500

Ancient China, Ancient Egypt, have this human characteristic in common, but Ancient Mali does not.

What is fishing?