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Ghana
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What are five environment vegetation zones in West Africa?
What is Sahara Desert, Dry woodland, Mediterranean, Savanna, and Tropical rain forest
100
What made farming in West Africa more efficient?
What is 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
The time slaves spent on the ship between Africa and the Americas is called
The Middle Passage
100
In the 1500’s this empire took over Timbuktu and the Berbers’ salt mines and control of the trade on the Niger River.
What is Songhai?
200
What is another word for Semidesert?
What is Sahel.
200
Jenne-Jeno's location made it ideal for what?
What is trade.
200
Because of its location, what role did Ghana play in North African trade?
What is middleman.
200
Who was the first West African ruler to practice Islam devoutly?
What is Mansa Musa.
200
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.
300
What three bodies of water surround Africa?
What is the Atlantic ocean, Indian ocean, and Mediterranean Sea
300
How did Songhai become the largest empire?
What is King Sunni Ali equipped his army with horses and built a navy.
300
Two parts. First, how did Ghana make money from trade? Second, How did Ghana's king preserve his power?
What is by taxing traders and by maintaining a large army.
300
This European country started using Africans in the slave trade.
What is Portugal.
300
What led to Mali's decline?
What is the Quarrels over who should succeed the throne and rebellion by the Fulani people in Senegambia and the Songhai people in Gao led to the collapse of the Mali kingdom in the 16th century
400
What river runs through the Ghana and Mali kingdoms before dumping out into the Atlantic Ocean?
What is the Niger river.
400
What was one economic effect or result of the four environment vegetation zones in West Africa?
What is people from different zones traded with each other.
400
Two parts. First, What two peoples did trade with one another in West Africa and what did they trade? Second, what are two reasons that silent bartering was a good way to trade?
What is North African traders traded salt for gold from the Wangarans. Silent bartering was good because it allowed people of different languages to trade and allowed the Wangarans to keep their gold mines secret.
400
This group of people introduced the camel to North Africa.
What is the Romans.
400
Why were separate sectors in trade cities important ?
Caravans from all over North Africa passed through it. It had 2 sectors for travelers. One was for people who held traditional African beliefs and the other section was for Muslim traders and those who had converted to Islam.
500
What vegetation types grow in each of the four vegetation zones?
What is nothing in the desert, small shrubs and short grass in the semidesert, tall grass and scattered trees in the Savanna, and many forms of plant life in the forest.
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 attacks by the Almoravids and merchants scared off by the attacks.
500
Before using camels, the Berbers used these animals, which often died in the harsh conditions of the desert.
What is horses and donkeys?
500
What led to Songhai's decline?
What is civil war, drought and disease, the loss of control of the gold trade The kingdom was invaded and ransacked by forces from Morocco with substantial financial and military support (guns) from the English Tudor monarch, Queen Elizabeth 1