People
Geography
Religion
All About the Money
Random (spin the wheel)
100
Founder of Islam
Who is Muhammad?
100
Name of the sandy area
Sahara Desert
100
Which religion has 5 pillars
Islam
100
A group of merchants traveling across the Sahara is called
Caravan
100
Mansa Musa became famous for his wealth because of
Pilgrimage to Mecca
200
Who am I?
Mansa Musa
200
Name of this place
Africa
200
The holy book of Islam is called
Quran
200
The richest person who ever lived was
Mansa Musa
200
Muslim name for this Byzantine city
Istanbul
300
I conquered Constantinople and changed it's name to Istanbul
Mehmed the Counqeror
300
Name of the Ocean to the WEST of Africa
Atlantic
300
The part of African indigenous religion that believes all nature has spirits
Animism
300
Crossing the sahara desert
trans-saharan
300
What is this building
Mosque
400
I am the story teller and keeper of oral tradition in West Africa
Griot
400
The names of all three West African Kingdoms in order from earliest to latest
Ghana, Mali, Songhai
400
Name the 5 Pillars of Islam
Belief in one god
Prayer
Charity
Fasting
Pilgrimage
400
The two main goods that made West Africa wealthy
Gold and Salt
400
Name one of the instruments a griot commonly plays
Kora, Drum, Balafon
500
I used to be a merchant living in the Arabian Peninsula until Allah gave me a message in a cave and I began a new religion
Muhammad
500
Name the 2 Major West African Cities
Djenne and Timbuktu
500
A follower of Islam is called
Muslim
500
What are these men loading on the camel?
Salt
500
2 of the West African Kingdoms still exist today. Which one does not?
Songhai