Religion and Learning
This religion spread to West Africa through trade.
What is Islam?
The world's second largest continent.
What is Africa?
Deserts receive very little of this.
What is rainfall?
Trade routes crossed this desert.
What is the Sahara?
This kingdom lasted from before 500 C.E. to the 1200s.
What is Ghana?
Muslim traders helped spread this religion peacefully.
What is Islam?
Africa lies south of this continent.
What is Europe?
What is tropical grassland?
Traders traveled together in these groups.
What are caravans?
The year that Ibn Battuta crossed the Sahara with a trade caravan and was chronicled in history.
What is 1352?
This language was used for learning in Mali.
What is Arabic?
The text describes vegetation zones as forming this pattern across Africa.
What are belts?
The Sahel is a geographic transition zone between these two geographic regions.
What are the Sahara and the Savanna?
Camels were important for travel in the desert because they could carry this in their stomachs.
What is water?
The year Almoravids attacked Ghana and captured Kumbi.
What is 1076?
This words means acceptance of different beliefs and customs.
What is tolerance?
Vegetation zones in West Africa influenced where these developed.
What are civilizations/kingdoms?
The broadleaf evergreen forest has many of these.
What are trees?
These people specialized in gold trade in West Africa and kept their gold mine locations secret.
What are Wangarans?
The year that the Mande people conquered Kumbi.
What is 1240?
What is a griot?
This ocean lies to the east of Africa.
What is the Indian Ocean?
This geographic zone lies just south of the Sahara and has a mix of dry and wet seasons.
What is the Sahel?
This system allowed gold to be traded without seeing or speaking with each other.
What is silent barter?
The year that the kingdom of Ghana reached its height.
What is 1000 C.E.?