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Which African country is located between G

What is Togo?

100
Trade that requires crossing the Sahara Desert.
What is Trans-Saharan Trade?
100
The three main empires in West Africa in order.
What is Ghana, Mali, and Songhai?
100
The religion that spread to West Africa and was important to the empires.
What is Islam?
100
This is where salt came from in Africa and where gold came from in Africa.
What is North Africa and West Africa?
200
The body of water to the north of North Africa that allowed them to trade goods and ideas with the Europeans.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
200
Salt and Gold.
What are the two main resources for trade in Africa?
200
The river that was important for the West African Empires of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai.
What is the Niger River?
200
The name of the city that was an important center of learning in the Empires of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai.
What is Timbuktu?
200
The definition of Sub-Saharan Africa.
What is the land of Africa south of the Sahara Desert?
300
This is one of the products produced in the New World, with the help of slaves, and brought to Europe.
What is tobacco, cotton, coffee, or sugar?
300
Slaves were taken from this part of Africa along the trans-Saharan trade and trans-Atlantic trade.
What is West Africa?
300
This is how Ghana received their money that helped them grow wealthy and successful as an empire.
What are taxes?
300
West Africans valued salt more than gold and traded for it because of this.
West Africans needed salt for their diet and used it for their cattle.
300
This is why North Africans wanted to trade for gold.
What is trading for gold because they wanted to make coins to trade with the Europeans?
400
A reason why North Africa and West Africa developed differently.
What is having different bodies of water available for trade, either the Atlantic Ocean or Mediterranean Sea? What is having the Sahara Desert as a barrier? What is having different vegetation zones, the Sahel and the desert?
400
The two factors that led to the growth of the trans-Saharan trade.
What is the spread of Islam and the introduction of camels?
400
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?
400
This is why the griots were so important to West Africa.
What is keeping the traditions and history of West Africa alive through their storytelling for generations?
400
The justification the Europeans gave for being involved in the slave trade, saying it was okay for them.
What is the Europeans seeing Africans selling other Africans into slavery along the trans-Saharan trade?
500
Describe at least two sides of the Triangle Trade, including the products and places.
Side 1: Slaves going from West Africa to the New World. Side 2: Raw materials like sugar, cotton, coffee, and tobacco going from the New World to Europe. Side 3: Goods like rum, cloth, and guns going from Europe to Africa.
500
Describe the process of silent barter.
This is where people exchange goods without contacting each other directly. One trader leaves their good, like salt, at a secret location. The next trader comes and leaves a fair amount of goods, like gold, in return. The first trader comes back for the gold.
500
The names of the famous rulers from the Empire of Mali and Songhai.
What are Mansa Musa and Askia the Great?
500
A way Africans became enslaved.
What is being kidnapped or captured in warfare? What is being excommunicated from your tribe? What is being punished for criminal activity?
500
Explain why West Africans wanted to use the process of silent barter.
-It let them trade without arguing about a price. -They were able to stay protected. -They spoke different languages. -Ghana was able to keep the location of their gold mines secret.