Geography (Places)
What were the "hub" located that originally stored salt? a) Mecca b) Israel c) Timbuktu
What is c) Timbuktu?
Trade that requires crossing the Sahara Desert.
What is Trans-Saharan Trade?
What are the three main empires in West Africa?
What is Ghana, Mali, and Songhai?
The religion that spread to West Africa and was important to the empires.
What is Islam?
What was the name of Mansa Musa's empire:
What is the Mali Empire
What are the two main resources for trade in Africa?
What are salt and gold?
The river that was important for the West African Empires of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai.
What is the Niger River?
The name of the city that was an important center of learning in the Empires of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai.
What is Timbuktu?
What empire did Sundiata rule?
What is Songhai?
What did the Mali empire primarily trade?
What is gold and salt?
This is how Ghana received their money that helped them grow wealthy and successful as an empire (travelers had to travel through their territory).
What are taxes?
True or False: In the West African Empire, salt was just as important as gold.
What is True?
What was the name of the River that bordered Ghana, Mali and Songhai?
What is the Niger River?
What did the Ghana Empire primarily trade?
What is ivory, gold, slaves?
This is one reason 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?
In the West African culture, who were the griots?
What are storytellers? They kept the traditions and history of West Africa alive through their storytelling
What desert did Mansa Musa's large caravan travel through?
What is the Sahara Desert?
What did the Songhai primarily trade?
What is salt and gold?
The names of the famous rulers from the Empire of Mali and Songhai.
What are Mansa Musa and Sundiata?
Who traveled through the Sahara desert with a large caravan of people on camels and carrying tons of gold?
Who is Mansa Musa?