This area was not as dry as the desert but only had enough water for small bushes and trees
What is the Sahel
100
What made farming in West Africa more efficient?
What is iron tools.
100
What was the name of the important trading city in Ghana?
What is Kumbi
100
This animal helped traders cross the desert and bring goods and Islam into West Africa
What are camels
100
Name two of the five major subjects the West Africans began to study after the influence of Islam
What are law, math, science, astronomy and philosophy
200
What is another name for the area under the desert?
What is Sahel.
200
What was the first empire to accept and practice Islam?
What is Mali
200
Because of its location, what role did Ghana play in North African trade?
What is middleman, able to collect taxes
200
This was one of the most powerful men in the world. He made a Hajj, was the king of Mali and accepted Islam
What is Mansa Musa.
200
How did Islam influence the way West Africans spoke and wrote?
What is Arabic began to be spoken and Islam influenced West Africans to begin writing
300
This area is extrememly wet, muddy, and full of trees and swampland.
What is the forest zone
300
Which empire started in the Sahel but later spread into the Savanna?
What is Ghana
300
Two parts. First, how did Ghana make money from trade? Second, How did Ghana's preserve its power?
What is by taxing traders and by maintaining a large army.
300
This leader was in charge of the Songhai empire, he accepted and practiced Islam
Who is Askia Mohammed Toure
300
Timbuktu was an important city of ______?
What is learning and education
400
What river runs through the Ghana and Mali kingdoms before dumping out into the Atlantic Ocean? Also known as the trading highway
What is the Niger river.
400
What was one economic effect or result of the four vegetation zones in West Africa?
What is people from different zones traded with each other.
400
What two people did trade with one another in West Africa?
What is traders from the North and traders from the South
400
What type of religion were native Africans practicing before Islam was introduced?
What is Polytheism
400
What two major impacts helped small towns grow into large cities?
What are Iron Tools and the expansion of trade
500
What grows in each of the four vegetation zones?
What is nothing in the desert, small shrubs and short grass in the Sahel, tall grass and scattered trees in the Savanna, and many forms of plant life in the forest.
500
What helped farmers grow and harvest crops more easily which created a food surplus?
What are Iron Tools
500
What caused the empire of Ghana to collapse?
What is attacked by the Almoravids Muslims on the city of Kumbi
500
Name two of the four major influences Islam had on West Africa
What are education, language, architecture and government
500
What did the empires of Mali and Ghana do to goods that passed through their empires? (There can be two answers)