These are the goods most often traded for among the African empires.
What are salt and gold?
100
This was the largest empire in West Africa.
What was Songhai?
100
This is the largest desert in the world, and it covers much of North Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
100
He introduced the world to the Mali Empire.
Who was Mansa Musa?
100
This is why West Africans had to rely on griots.
What is that they had no written language so griots recorded and shared their history orally?
200
This religion spread from the Middle East into Africa.
What is Islam?
200
This empire grew powerful in part because of its army's use of iron weapons.
What was Ghana?
200
This area has dense, wet forests.
What is the rainforest?
200
They were the first to use iron to make farming tools and weapons.
Who were the Nok?
200
This was a significant outcome of the Bantu Migrations.
What is that there was an exchange of ideas that led to cultural blending?
300
This was the major trading highway in West Africa.
What was the Niger River?
300
This group began in West Africa but, after a 1500 year migration, reached the southernmost part of Africa.
Who were the Bantu?
300
This is a semi-arid strip of land that separates the desert from the savannah.
What is the Sahel?
300
He unified Songhai and participated in many religions.
Who was Sunni Ali?
300
These are the five things that Ghana, Mali, and Songhai all have in common.
What are located along the Nile River, located in West Africa, they bordered the Sahara Desert, they traded gold and salt, and they used iron for weapons and farming?
400
These revolutionized trade across the Sahara.
What were camels?
400
These are areas with different temperatures and physical characteristics.
What are climate zones?
400
This area has warm winters and calm, hot, dry summers.
What is the Mediterranean climate?
400
This group of strict Muslims believed it was their destiny to take over Ghana.
Who were the Almoravids?
400
This African country has the poorest record of modern slavery (hint: it was the main country talked about in the article you were supposed to read last night).
What is Mauritania?
500
This East African culture was created through Islamic influence.
What is Swahili?
500
Place the three empires we have focused on this unit in order, from oldest to youngest.
What were Ghana, Mali, and Songhai?
500
List and describe two of the three threats to people living in the rainforest.
What are industrial hunting, commercial logging, traditional fishing?
500
This group conquered the salt mines of Songhai.
Who were the Moroccans?
500
This occurs when grazing animals eat too much grass, exposing soil to the sun.