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The two major rivers located in West Africa.

What is the Senegal River and the Niger River?

100
Trade that requires crossing the Sahara Desert.
What is Trans-Saharan Trade?
100
The three main empires in West Africa in order.
What is Ghana, Mali, and Songhai?
100
The religion that spread to West Africa and was important to the empires.
What is Islam?
100
This is where salt came from in Africa and where gold came from in Africa.
What is North Africa and West Africa?
200
The body of water to the north of North Africa that allowed them to trade goods and ideas with the Europeans.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
200
Salt and Gold.
What are the two main resources for trade in Africa?
200
The river that was important for the West African Empires of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai.
What is the Niger River?
200
The name of the city that was an important center of learning in the Empires of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai.
What is Timbuktu?
200

The definition of Sub-Saharan Africa.

What is the land of Africa south of the Sahara Desert known sometimes referred to as the sahel?

300

Largest hot desert in the world?

What the Sahara Desert?

300

Slaves were taken from this part of Africa along the trans-Saharan trade and trans-Atlantic trade to the Americas.

What is West Africa?

300
This is how Ghana received their money that helped them grow wealthy and successful as an empire.
What are taxes?
300

West Africans needed salt for their diet and used it to preserve food.

Why West Africans valued salt more than gold and traded for it because of this?

300

This is why North Africans wanted to trade for gold.

What is trading for gold because they wanted to make coins to trade with the Europeans?

400

The only continent to be located on all 4 hemispheres-North, South, East and West? 

What is Africa?

400

The two factors that led to the growth of the trans-Saharan trade.

What is the hajj of Mansa Musa and the introduction of camels?

400

Two reasons why Timbuktu was such an important city to the Empires of West Africa.

What is the fact that Timbuktu was a center for education, trade, and religion?

400
This is why the griots were so important to West Africa.
What is keeping the traditions and history of West Africa alive through their storytelling for generations?
400

A roaring lion kills no game. 

What is an African Proverb?

500

Describe at least two types of geographic features found in West Africa 

What is sahel, rivers, location between salt and gold mines, south of the Sahara, savannah etc. 

500

This is where people exchange goods without contacting each other directly. One trader leaves their good, like salt, at a secret location. The next trader comes and leaves a fair amount of goods, like gold, in return. The first trader comes back for the gold.

What is the process of silent bartering?

500

The names of the two most famous rulers of the Empire of Mali.

Who are Sundiata and Mansa Musa ?

500

Children like to listen to stories with animals helps them relate and be entertained

Why do the African Folktales involve animals?

500

-It let them trade without arguing about a price. -They were able to stay protected. -They spoke different languages. -Ghana was able to keep the location of their gold mines secret.

Why West Africans wanted to use the process of silent barter?