The Story of Anansi the Spiderman teaches us that this is the cardinal virtue to which we should all aspire.
What is wisdom
100
A West-African story teller, poet, singer and political advisor
What is a Griot
100
Prophetic Founder of Islam
Who is Muhammad
100
Race of the first Muslims, and the race of the people who brought Islam and technology to the African trading kingdoms.
What is Arab
200
The thing that happens to price as demand goes up
What is goes up as well
200
Water sources in the desert controlled by the trading kingdoms to make travel across the Sahara possible
What are Oases
200
Richest man in the history of the world
Who is Mansa Musa
200
Holy book of Islam
What is the Quran
200
Part of society valued by all early Muslim rulers who built libraries and universities to support it.
What is education
300
Principle in economics that says there is not enough of any item for everyone to have as much as they want
What is scarcity
300
Another word for a god that exists in three persons.
What is triune or trinity
300
Element of Sundiata Keita's childhood that made the "hungering lion," a fair ruler who allowed his people more freedoms than they had enjoyed under Ghana's rule.
What is he was a cripple as a child.
300
Belief that their is only one God in all the universe
What is monotheism
300
The theocratic ruler of the Islamic Empire, who was both the King and High Priest of their society.
What is Caliph
400
One of the two economic reasons that the age of the Trading Kingdoms came to an end?
What is participation in slave trade or the price of salt dropped as it became easier to mine.
400
the first of the African Trading Kingdoms
What is Ghana
400
An attempt to change history to suite a particular narrative or point of view.
What is revisionist history
400
Collective term of the basic expectations all Muslims must live up to in order to be a good Muslim
What are the 5 Pillars of Islam
400
Tax paid by non-Muslims in society who refused to join the Muslim faith.
What is Jizya
500
Complete control over the trade of a particular item
What is monopoly
500
Word that describes the rulers of Ghana and any other places where the ruler has the power to both control the army and make all the laws.
What is absolutism
500
Timbuktu might have been the greatest city in both Mali and Songhai, but what city was the capital of Songhai, captured after Sonni Ali escaped prison
What is Gao
500
Two types of Muslims formed over a dispute between the possible sucessors to Muhammad.
What is Shia and Sunni
500
Muhammad's son-in-law and future leader of one of the two sects of Islam