Empires
One of the 1st great imperial powers in the African 11th Century (What country?)
What is Ghana?
This technology was produced by Africans as early as 600 B.C.E.
What is steel technology?
Though today it is mostly covered in desert, was once covered in savannah grasslands.
What is the Sahara?
Ruler of Ghana in the 11th century Africa.
Who is Tunka-Manin?
The most valuable trade item in ancestral Africa.
What is Gold?
West African Empire known for its wealth.
What is Mali?
This highly crafted skill was a status of prestige and limited to certain social groups.
What is iron working?
This led to the introduction of camels in place of cattle herding.
What is Desertification?
Ruler of Mali credited for strengthening the kingdom.
Who is Sundiata Keita?
The ways that goods and cargo traveled from point to point.
What is through waterways mostly rivers?
This Kingdom had five confederate states.
Archeologists identify this people as early Iron Age societies.
Who are the Nok people?
According to the map, Western Africa consists of this type of climate and terrains.
What are rainforests, mountain ranges high plateaus, savannahs, and steppe?
Carried Mali to greater heights, and spread fame and influence through North Africa. Known for his great wealth.
Who is Mansa Musa?
West African gold was transferred in this method and carried northward.
What is from boat to camel?
Religion was a key element in this nation.
What is The Christian Kongo?
These mines were indigenous to Western Africa.
What are copper mines?
Most of the continent exists in this ecological zone.
What is the tropics?
The ruler of the kingdom of Songhai (Songhay) emerged after the decline of Mali.
lagoon trade provided how many miles of unbroken communication.
What is 400 miles?
Queen Njinga Ruled this nation.
What is Ndongo Matomba?
These people crafted copper pieces including hammers, bars, rings, etc.
Who are the Akan smiths of Ghana?
A total of this many ecological zones can be counted in the continent by the map.
What is six?
The successor of Sunni Ali, devoted to growing the Songhai kingdom, built professional army of slaves and POWs.
Who is Askia Muhammad?
To facilitate trade, African groups developed what to aid in trade relations.
What is pidgin-contact language?