Empire 1
The first of the three great empires
What is Ghana?
The second of the great empires.
What is Mali?
The third and last of the West African empires.
What is Songhai?
A resource that Ghana had lots of.
What is Gold?
The founder of Mali, and its most famous king
Who was Mansa Musa?
Why is it an advantage to live alongside a river in this time period?
Closer to trade, can travel easily and the water would be great for farming.
A river that bounded the three empires and a desert that lay to the north.
What are the Niger River and the Sahara Desert?
What items did the Portuguese trade with the West Africans?
Manufactured goods for gold and salt.
Exportation of slave labor from West Africa to _______ began in the early 1240s AD.
the Islamic world
What are some of the items that Mali traded?
Gold, salt, copper, slaves, and kola nuts.
What were the major trade items in Songhai?
Gold, salt, and the enslaved
Which empire was the largest?
Songhai, which covered over 2,000 miles.
What did the empires get most of their power from?
Control of gold and salt mines and control of trade routes.
What language did the West African traders speak?
They spoke Arabic
Mecca and Cairo
What are the cities that Mansa Musa traveled to?
Songhai expanded its territory from the previous _____ Empire
Mali
During the very prosperous region of the Ghana and Mali empires, what was happening in Europe?
The black plague, or the black death.
Africa is rich in minerals. List four minerals found in all of Africa?
minerals that were traded included copper, iron, diamonds, and salt.
The capital of Mali.
What is Timbuktu
Songhai Empire lasted from 1400 AD to ______ AD.
1600 AD
The first country to trade European goods with Songhai.
What is Portugal?
Mansa Musa, with all his generosity and wealth, ordered the construction of these two buildings everywhere he went.
Universities and Mosques