The desert region in Northern Africa covering 3.5 milling square miles.
What is the Sahara?
100
The longest river in Western Africa; it functioned as a trading route for the early West African empires and joins with the Benue River in its southern arm.
What is the Niger River?
100
Groups of people, usually extended families, who lived south of the Sahara and farmed the land.
What are early faming communities?
100
The way that many empires became wealthy.
What is collecting taxes?
100
American auto makers Ford, GM and Chrysler.
What is the Big Three?
200
A group of people living in West Africa in the 500s BCE who learned ironwork.
Who were the Nok?
200
The region that contains the vegetation zones of desert, semidesert, savanna and forest.
What is West Africa?
200
The type of item the Nok learned to make that changed daily life for all people.
What are iron tools?
200
The three major West African trading empires.
What are Ghana, Mali and Songhai?
200
The "letters" used in a language that is based on pictures rather than individual letters.
What is a pictogram?
300
The process of melting metal ore to produce other metals from it.
What is smelting?
300
The economic activity heavily influenced by geography.
What is trade?
300
The West African city that proved that ancient people native to West Africa were building cities before the arrival of outsiders.
What is Jenne-jeno?
300
The method the West African kingdoms used to gain territory and wealth.
What is conquering?
300
The current US Secretary of State and former First Lady who was recently called before Congress to testify about the attack in Benghazi in 2012.
Who is Hilary Rodham Clinton?
400
A payment made by a conquered people to the conqueror to show they accept being conquered or for protection.
What is a tribute?
400
The semidesert located south of the Sahara that has mainly scrub vegetation- small trees, grasses and very few trees.
What is the Sahel?
400
Iron ore, good farmland, a steady supply of water- reasons that settlements formed in certain areas.
What are natural resources?
400
Protection, ending of small wars between cities, safe trade routes, fair distribution of wealth.
What are advantages to being a conquered territory?
400
Mrs. Norwood's dog.
Who is Bailey?
500
An item left behind by an earlier culture- something that has been manipulated or created by people.
What is an artifact?
500
The vegetation zone containing tall grasses and scattered trees, found south of the Sahel in Western Africa.
What is the savanna?
500
The villages that controlled these became the market centers.
What are trade routes?
500
The role that kings played in the West African empires.
What is a religious and political/governmental leader?
500
The battle that took place between the 300 men led by Leonidas and Xerxes' Persian army.