Geography
West African Empires
Vocabulary
100

What is the second-largest continent?

What is Africa

100

Ghana is known for what

What is either gold or salt

100

An area of high, flat land.

What is a plateau 

200

What river runs through Africa, and is the longest in the world?

What is the Nile River

200

To pass through Ghana, traders had to do what?

What is pay a tax

200

An African story-teller.

What is a griot.

300

Broad grassland dotted with small trees and shrubs. Home to lions, elephants, and giraffes

What is a savanna

300

What Empire defeated Ghana and captured its capital in 1240

Who is Mali

400

What imaginary line runs through the middle of the African continent, and is the reason why the climate zones of Africa are so different?

What is the Equator

400

Mansa Musa was the richest person in history due to his abundance of what?

What is gold

500

Name the largest desert in Africa. 

(BONUS: name the other desert of Africa too)

What is the Sahara

(BONUS: What is the Kalahari)

500

Was recognized as one of the intellectual capitals of the Muslim world

What is Timbuktu

500

A group of traveling merchants is called what?

What is a caravan