Historical Impact
What are leaders of a Muslim empire known as?
What is a Caliph
The two valuable sources in West Africa
What is gold and salt?
This desert covers most of North Africa. Trade was difficult but not impossible.
What is the Sahara desert?
Travel across the Sahara
What is Trans-Saharan trade?
The empire grew wealthy by controlling gold trade between West and North Africa
What is Ghana?
The book of folktales from early Arab empires is called?
What is One thousand and one nights?
The major religion spread amongst the trade routes
What is Islam?
What is the Niger River?
Pursuit of academic learning
What is scholarship?
This empire replaced Ghana and expanded trade across West Africa
What is the Mali Empire?
What is the name of the angel who is believed to have visited Muhammad?
Who is Gabriel?
The city became a center of learning and trade in West Africa (Spelling matters)
What is Timbuktu?
Systems developed by traders to cross Sahara safely
What are trade caravans?
Pilgrimage made by Muslims to Mecca
What is a Hajj?
Who helped establish the Mali empire?
Sundiata
How did Islamic mathematicians help develop modern mathematics?
They adopted the number zero (and decimal style numbers from India.)
The people who originally brought the spread of Islam to Africa
Who are the Bedouin Warriors?
Trade before the spread of Islam in West Africa is known as?
What is silent bartering?
A wise saying
What is a proverb?
Became the largest empire in West Africa
What is the Songhai Empire?
How did Sunni Muslims believe leaders should be chosen?
By consensus
Besides gold and salt, what did the city of Ghana use in trade and everyday life?
What is iron?
The seas to west of the Arabian Peninsula is?
What is the Red Sea?
Book with traditions believed to come form the prophet Muhammad
What is the Sunnah?
Two princes were released/The city of Timbuktu was lost