Geography
The name of the large desert that stretches across North Africa?
What is the Sahara Desert
The most famous Muslim leader of Mali
Who was Mansa Musa?
The reason that Ghana was able to become wealthy and powerful.
What is the control of the salt and gold trade routes?
The leader who made the Songhai kingdom much bigger and encouraged all his people to work together whatever their religion.
Who was Sunni Ali?
The number of early African civilizations with a written form of their language.
What is 0?
The narrow strip of semi-arid land immediately south of the Sahara Desert.
What is the Sahel
The journey to Mecca that Mansa Musa took during his reign where he showed his and Mali's wealth to the world.
What is a hajj?
The capital city of Ghana empire.
What is Koumbi Saleh?
The most famous Songhai ruler who was a devout Muslim, went on a hajj, spread Islam and promoted education.
Who was Askia the Great?
The great trading center of the Bantu people that lasted for 400 years near the Kalahari Desert.
What is Great Zimbabwe?
What is salt and gold?
What was Timbuktu?
The trading system where salt would be left at an arranged location and after the salt traders left, the gold traders would come and leave what they thought was a fair portion of gold for the salt. There was no direct contact or interaction between traders.
What is silent bartering?
Timbuktu, Djenne and Gao
What were important centers of trade and education?
The word used to describe the blended African-Arab culture and language that became common in East Africa
What is Swahili?
Open grasslands with scattered trees in Africa.
What are savannahs?
The founder of the Mali empire. He wanted a better life for his people so he introduced many improvements to agriculture such as new crops. (beans, onions, rice, cotton, ect)
Who was Sundiata?
This also spread across North and West Africa along the trade routes in addition to the gold and salt.
What is the religion of Islam?
The reason why the Moroccans were able to defeat the Songhai armies.
What were the superior weapons?
The name of the central practices of the Islam religion
What are the 5 pillars?
The most important in West Africa for water, food and transportation?
What is the Niger River?
The reason that Mansa Musa was so dedicated to education and set up schools all over Mali.
What is he wanted everyone to be able to read the Qur'an?
Loss of power due to invaders, overgrazing and internal rebellions.
What are reasons that the empire of Ghana fell?
What is to rule his large empire more effectively.
The early African belief that natural objects have spirits and should be worshipped.
What is animism?