Where, Where and Where
The largest dessert in Africa.
What is the Saharan Dessert?
What is iron?
The type of religious celebration of those that came before us in life.
What is Ancestor Worship?
Mansa Musa ruled over this country
What is Mali?
The first country to control the salt and gold trade in West Africa.
What is Ghana?
The ocean on the western front of Africa.
What is Atlantic Ocean?
Trade routes that crossed the largest desert in Africa
What is Trans-Saharan trade routes?
Storytellers and historians who spread moral messages.
What is Griots?
The buildings Mansa Musa commissioned that serve as holy centers for Islam
What is a Mosque?
The religion that was dispersed across the trade routes of Western Africa.
What is Islam?
A vast tropical grassland ecosystem covering nearly half of Africa, characterized by abundant grasses, scattered trees, and a distinct wet and dry season
What is Savannah?
Along with salt and gold, what language was spread on the Trans-Saharan trade routes.
What is Arabic Language?
The belief that all things in the world have a spirit.
What is Animism?
Mansa Musa ruled during this period of the Mali Empire.
What is the age of exceptional growth? Or What is the golden age?
Muslim scholars flocked to this country to study.
What is Mali?
The river that allowed for trade, communication and drinkable water for all kingdoms in Western Africa.
What is the Niger River?
What is gold?
Entities above ancestors in the traditional worship of Western Africa.
What is deities?
The city that was financially impacted because of the gold that was spent during Mansa Musa's Hajj.
What is Cairo, Egypt?
The greatest center of trade, cultural and educational development in the Western Africa
What is Timbuktu?
What is the Mediterranean?
The resource found in the dessert and traded by the Tuareg
What is salt?
Dance, music and masks were used in this form of worship for traditional African religion.
What is Rituals?
The amount of people that traveled with Mansa Musa during his Hajj
What is 50,000?
The final empire that existed during the Medieval Kingdoms of West Africa.
What is Songhai?