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Geography
Early Societies
Ghana
Influence of Islam
Culture
100
What are three vegetation zones in West Africa?
What is Desert,Savanna, and Rainforest
100
What made farming in West Africa more efficient?
What are iron tools.
100
What two things led to the growth of trans-Saharan trade which led to the development of great kingdoms.
What is the introduction of the camel and Islam.
100
Who first brought Islam to West Africa?
Merchants.
100
What is a griot?
What is a storyteller or record keeper.
200
What is the area between the Desert and Savannah called?
What is Sahel.
200
Why was Sub-Saharan trade so dangerous?
Long distances Hot harsh conditions Lack of resources
200
Apart from water, African life revolved around what?
Family
200
Who was the first West African ruler to practice Islam devoutly?
What is Mansa Musa.
200
Name two examples or oral traditions created by griots.
What is proverbs, folktales, poems, praise songs, stories.
300
What three bodies of water surround Africa?
What is the Atlantic ocean, Indian ocean, and Mediterranean Sea
300
What is another word for family (blood, adopted,or marriage?)
What is kinship.
300
How did Ghana make money from trade?
They made money from trade by taxing traders.
300
When a Muslim visits Mecca, they are making a what?
A pilgrimage.
300
What was the name of the traveler that traveled the world in 1300?
Ibn Battuta
400
What is the main river in Africa called?
What is the Niger river.
400
What was one economic effect or result of the four vegetation zones in West Africa?
People from different zones traded with each other.
400
What where the two main trade goods in West Africa?
Salt and Gold
400
Ghana became rich because of what?
Ghana became rich because of its location in West Africa.
400
What great Mali Ruler went a pilgrimage?
Mansa Musa
500
Which vegetation zones has animal life, such a lions and hyenas.
The Savannah
500
How did kingdoms develop in West Africa?
What is wealthy merchants charged taxes and used this money to build armies which conquered other cities and forced to pay tribute.
500
What are the two reasons that the empire of Ghana collapsed? Must give me the official name!
What is lack of resources and attacked by the Almoravids.
500
Why did Islam spread so rapidly in West Africa?
It was spread by travelers
500
What do West African dance movements tell us about the people dancing?
What is movements reflected the conditions people lived in. For example, forest people would move as finding their way through forest undergrowth.