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Ghana was established by the Soninke people in the third century A.D. Fact/Opinion
What is a fact?
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Name the genre of the selection.
What is nonfiction?
100
Identify a way that the journey by the camel caravan was difficult.
What is they say the camels were difficult to manage/
100
This is the reason the authors give more details about village life than life in Ghana's big cities.
What is the majority of Ghana's population lived in farming villages?
100
Identify reasons the came was reliable for desert travel.
What is they can endure the dry heat and need little water?
200
Identify how Soninke villagers contributed to the strength of Ghana's empire.
What is they grew crops to feed the powerful cities?
200
Identify a detail that supports this statement- Family was very important to the Soninke people.
What is there were no orphans or homeless people in their society, cousins were the same as brothers and sisters in the family, and the birth of a child was celebrated with feasting, dancing, and singing.
200
Gold was the lifeblood of trade for the people of Ghana. Tell one detail to support this statement.
What is the king sent soldiers to protect the caravan.
200
Tell the reason it was necessary to have an experienced guide when traveling across the desert.
What is the desert sand was ever changing?
200
This is the reason miners would choose death over betraying the mines' locations.
What is they valued keeping the location of the mines secret above all else because trade was so important to Ghana?
300
The story is told in this point of view: first, second, third.
What is third person?
300
This is the reason the Wangaran miners developed the practice of dumb bartering.
What is to protect the secret of their gold mines.
300
Identify the purpose of this story: inform, persuade, entertain.
What is to inform?
300
Identify a reason the author included the detail that ordinary people adorned themselves with golden jewelry.
What is to show that gold was plentiful?
300
This is a reason the Wangaran miners wanted to protect their mines.
What is to keep outsiders from stealing their wealth?