Row 1
What do you call a form of government in which people rule themselves?
Democracy
What began in the early 500s when Europe was divided into several small kingdoms?
The Middle Ages
What was the name of Mali's most famous king, who led the country to new heights of wealth, power, and fame?
Mansa Musa
What subject did many manuscripts that Europeans rediscovered in the 1300s deal with?
Science
What were warriors who battled on horseback called?
Knights
What were the names given to businesses in which a group of people invested together?
joint-stock companies
When was Islam founded?
600s
What ultimately helped Ghana, Mali, and Songhai gain power?
The trans Saharan slave trade
Who was well-known for his paintings, sculptures, and architecture, as well as being an inventor, engineer, and mapmaker?
Leonardo da Vinci
Mali, like Ghana, is located along where?
The Niger River
Following Muhammad's death, his followers recorded his teachings in a book called what?
The Qur’an
Historians believe that the first inhabitants in Ghana were farmers, but when did these farmers unite together to become the nation of Ghana?
AD 300
Mali's rise to prominence began under whom?
Sundiata
Who attacked Ghana in an attempt to force its leaders to convert to Islam, thereby undermining Ghana's empire and cutting off numerous trade routes?
The Almoravids
What motivated the separation of territory and people?
Feudalism
What period introduced new ways of thinking to Europe?
The Renaissance
What Arab was responsible for founding Islam?
Muhammad
What was the name of the plague that swept through Europe, killing an estimated 25 million people?
Black Death
What was the name of Songhai's greatest monarch before acquiring the title of Askia?
Muhammad Ture
What allowed an entire page to be printed at once?
Printing Press
Who developed a printing press that used movable type?
Johannes Gutenberg
The cities of Gao and Timbuktu thrived, with magnificent mosques, universities, schools, and libraries; people traveled from all over West Africa to learn mathematics, physics, medicine, grammar, and law. Who ruled?
Askia the Great
What is the phrase used to describe organized political units with central governments?
Nation States
Who taught individuals to live their lives according to reason, or clear and orderly thinking?
Aristotle
Who was a renowned teacher in Ancient Greece who encouraged people to reflect and challenge their own beliefs?
Socrates
What was the former name of the territory currently known as France?
Gaul
How long did Mansa Musa rule Mali?
25 years
When did Mansa Musa conquer a rival kingdom of people known as the Songhai?
1300s
When did a Muslim faction known as the Almoravids attack Ghana in an attempt to force its leaders to convert to Islam?
1060s
Which nation was attacked by Morocco, the kingdom's northern neighbors, to gain control of the salt mines?
Songhai
Who chose to write in Italian, the people's common language, rather than Latin, allowing regular people to read this poet and politician's work?
Dante Alighieri
What was the title of military rank in Songhai known as?
Askia
What is the term for clear and orderly thinking?
Reason
Traditionally, slavery in West Africa primarily involved who?
Black Africans
Which Greek city-state first established democracy?
Athens
What is the name of an economic system that unifies and increases a nation's strength and wealth?
Mercantilism
What are Muslim prayer buildings known as?
Mosques
When was the Roman Republic created?
509 BC
When was Ghana firmly in control of West Africa’s trade routes?
800s
What was the name of a group of people from Northern Africa?
Berbers
What was the name of the farmers who historians believe were the first people in Ghana near the Niger River?
Soninke
People captured by warring parties during warfare may be sold into what?
Slavery
What is the Mali kingdom's term for a pilgrimage to Mecca?
Hajj
When did Islam become the most widely practiced religion in Ghana?
1400s
Who journeyed from Europe to China along a stretch of the famous Silk Road in 1271 having living and traveling in Asia for 20 years?
Marco Polo
Who was a philosopher and teacher who wrote a book called The Republic?
Plato
What kind of government lets people vote for their leaders?
Democratic Republic
What were the names of the trade associations that were significant in European life?
Guilds
During Mansa Mali's reign, Mali created several prominent trade cities. What were their names?
Timbuktu, Djenné, and Gao
What was the name of the long series of conflicts that started between Christians and Muslims in Southwest Asia?
Crusades