Ghana
These two resources were abundant in Mali.
What is salt and gold?
Who is Muhammad?
Muslims were known for their innovations in this scientific study of everything in the universe beyond Earth.
What is astronomy?
NaCl, also known as _______, was worth as much as gold due to its use in meat preservation.
What is salt?
Mansa Musa travelled on a year long _____ to Mecca in 1324 CE.
What is pilgrimage or hajj?
This is the term for a ruler in the Islamic Empire.
What is Caliph?
Islam primarily spread through war/conquest and _________.
What is trade?
The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing Arabic book of mathematics written by Muhammad al-Khwarizmi in 820 CE introduced this type of math.
The Kingdom Ghana was eventually conquered by, and absorbed into, the Kingdom of
A group of people, especially traders or pilgrims, traveling together across a desert in Asia or North Africa. (Picture a long line of camels carrying 300 pounds of gold for Mansa Musa)
These 2 cities in modern-day Saudi Arabia are considered two of the most important cities in Islamic culture.
What are Mecca and Medina?
This was the first major dynasty of the Islamic Empire.
What is the Umayyad Caliphate?
This type of decorative writing is prominent in Islamic culture.
What is calligraphy?
The oral historians and storytellers of W. Africa.
This empire gained independence from Mali and eventually conquered them.
What is Songhai?
Islam split into these 2 groups after the death of Muhammad.
What are Sunni and Shia?
The Islamic Golden Age occurred during the reign of this dynasty.
What is the Abbasid Caliphate?
Muslim scientists studied outer space in these buildings dedicated to astronomy.
What are observatories?
By the ______ century, Islam had reached Ghana.
What is the 11th?
Mali formed around this important geographic feature.
What is the Niger River?
After the death of Muhammad, _________ (Muhammad’s father in law), was chosen to become the first caliph.
This major battle with the Franks stopped the spread of Islam in Europe.
What is the Battle of Tours?
Muslim traders invented this tool that used the position of stars in the sky to find their location on Earth.
What is the astrolabe?