Families to Empires
Geography
Influence of Islam
Ghana
West African Cultural Influences
100
Tools, crafts, and everyday objects are often called this word by archeologists and historians.
What is an artifact?
100
The name of the longest river in West Africa.
What is the Niger River?
100
This guy spread wealth and Islam throughout West Africa and the world.
Who is Mansa Musa?
100
This name was given to describe the trading between the salt traders of Taghaza and the gold miners of Wangara.
What is Trans-Saharan trading?
100
A grandfather telling a story about his childhood would best be described as this kind of tradition.
What is oral tradition?
200
The reason why few large settlements developed in the Sahara.
What is too dry, not enough food or other resources?
200
This landform covers almost all of North Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
200
This mode of transportation helped Muslims travel throughout the Sahara, and other areas, by transporting their goods and equipment.
What are caravans?
200
This was a major advantage of becoming part of an empire.
What is protection?
200
These poet musicians would memorize stories and pass them down to other generations.
What is a griot?
300
The main reason why people from different vegetation zones in West Africa traded with each other.
What is each zone had different, but necessary resources?
300
The name of the letter "A" landform.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
300
This West African city was a center of education thanks to Islamic culture.
What is Timbuktu?
300
Ghana became known as the land of this resource.
What is gold?
300
West African folktales were brought to the Americas by this group of people.
What are enslaved people?
400
Once a West African city grew rich from trade, this was typically the next step rulers took to become a kingdom.
What is conquering other cities?
400
The name of the landform marked "B."
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
400
This art form was valued by both West Africans and Muslims even before their cultures met.
What are geometric designs?
400
Ghana became rich through this practice.
What is taxation?
400
This modern musical style was most influenced by West African call-and-response songs.
What is the Blues?
Also accepted will be Rock n Roll, Rap, Hip Hop, and Rhythm and Blues.
500
This major river in West Africa encouraged trade.
What is the Niger River?
500
This famous East African river starts in Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
500
These people were the first to bring Islam to West Africa.
What are caravan traders?
500
This word describes how Ghana chose who would be the next king. It is the opposite of patrilineal.
What is matrilineal?
500
Masks were typically worn by these people in ritual ceremonies.
What are dancers?