The three groups who served as government officials during our study of China.
What are aristocrats, scholars, and foreigners?
The name of the West African verbal artists.
What are griots?
A journey all Muslims are expected to take once in their lifetime to Mecca.
What is the Hajj
The tests candidates took to prove they were qualified to hold office.
What are civil service examinations?
The three kingdoms we studied, that arose south of the Sahara Desert.
What is Ghana, Songhai and Mali?
The major reason that the crusades happened.
What is controlling the holy land?
The dynasty in which foreigners were treated as superior to the Chinese.
What is the Yuan Dynasty?
This was traded during the trans-Saharan trade.
What is gold and salt?
An organization of people in the same craft or trade.
What is a guild?
The two reasons for the growth of China's agricultural economy during the Song Dynasty.
What is an increase in the production of rice and better farming methods?
How Ghana became a wealthy empire.
What is the taxes paid to Ghana as goods passed through the empire?
The sharing, or borrowing, of cultural elements between societies.
What is cultural exchange?
A prosperous African city built where the Niger river meets the Bani river.
What is Jenne-Jeno?