True or False
1. The slave trade began with European contact with Africa.
2. Africans enslaved their enemies and traded them for goods.
3. As the slave trade increased, Africa’s contact with the Muslims grew.
What is 1. False, 2. true, 3. True?
This kingdom gained control of the valuable trade routes and became a powerful empire by taxing the products coming in and out.
What is Ghana?
This was use to control trade through Ghana.
What is paying tax?
This famous ruler of Mali started libraries for Islamic learning, built mosques, and making his kingdom the center of trade, culture, and learning.
Who was Mansa Musa?
These are people descended from the same ancestors.
What are Clans?
This lawyer was responsible for providing us with the information that we have on West Africa today
Who was Ibn Battuta?
These cities became center of trade, scholarship, and learning.
What are Timbuktu and Djenne?
These items were the most valuable for trade by West Africa.
What is gold and salt?
This was the first of the major West African trade empires.
What is Ghana?
This is the belief that spirits or souls are found in all natural objects.
What is animism?
In this year, Mansa Musa had a pilgrimage to Mecca.
What is 1324 CE?
This river in West Africa was used often for trade.
What is the Niger River?
Trade in West Africa was possible because each kingdom provided these for the traders on the Trans-Saharan Trade Routes.
What are armies to protect the traders against invaders?
Which of the West African Empires was the wealthiest and was the center of learning.
What is Mali?
The traditional religions in Africa practiced this type of worship.
What was ancestor worship?
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One reason Mansa Musa went on his Hajj was to help his people's understanding of this religion.
What was Islam?
This is the largest desert in the world.
What is the Sahara (Desert)?
The adoption of Islam impacted the Mali Empire because it led Timbuktu as a center of Islamic ___________.
What is learning?
The increase of ______ _______helped spread Islam to Africa.
- Local Trade
- National Trade
- International Trade
- European Trade
Who is International Trade?
These are storytellers who used oral tradition and stories to teach young West Africans.
What are griots?
Griots used _____ ____________ to share the African culture and history to the village.
What is oral traditions?
This kingdom became powerful and wealthy after Ghana.
What is Mali?
This trade route helped the spread of Islam throughout Africa.
What are the Trans-Saharan trade routes?
This art form was made for religious rituals
What are wooden masks?
This body of water is located at the mouth of the Niger River?
What is the Gulf of Guinea?