Geography
Long, deep valleys created by movements in the Earth's crust usually in between mountains.
Rifts
Father, Mother, Siblings, Cousins, Grandparents, Aunts, and Uncles.
Extended Family
A spoken record of past events is known as a _____ history.
Oral
This the most important river to this region of Africa.
The Niger River
Mansa Musa was the richest person to ever live. His estimated net worth being how much? (Roughly)
400-600 Billion Dollars
This is what we call the area below the Saharan Desert.
Sub-Sahara
This was done to keep the peace. It normally involved leaving salt a river bank in exchange for gold.
Silent Barter
These were the storytellers of West Africa. Having to remember hundreds of characters and countless stories.
(The T is silent)
Griots
The rulers of Ghana banned the common people from having these. While they got to hoard them for themselves.
Gold Nuggets
Mansa Musa became rich very fast. He did this by controlling the trade of what two resources?
Gold and Salt
The moist, densely wooded areas of Africa are known as what?
Rainforests
This is the belief that things such as water, animals, plants, and other materials had spirits.
Animism
Farming in West Africa made a giant leap once tools were made out of this material.
Iron
Brightly colored, hand-woven fabric.
Kente
Mansa Musa is credited with spreading this religion through Northern and Western Africa.
Islam
Open grassland with scatter trees.
The Savannah
This man was a ruler of Mali. He had 11 brothers but he was the only survivor. He was also the one who took control of the salt and gold trade.
Sundiata
The words of wisdom at the end of a story.
Proverbs
There are 5 main resources in West Africa. Name me 3 of them.
_______, _______, _______, _______, _______
Gold, Salt, Kola Nuts, Grains, Dates
On his pilgrimage, Mansa Musa brough _____ elephants and _____ camels.
100 and 80
This is the strip of land in between the desert and areas with water. There is also little rainfall in this region.
The Sahel
This man was a leader of Ghana during its reign of height and prosperity.
Tunka Manin
Many of these stories became epic poems. They were eventually compiled together, being known as the ______.
Dausi
By what year did the Ghanan Empire finally collapse?
1200
On his pilgrimage, Mansa Musa had _______ servants to himself. His wife had ______ servants to herself. He also brought along _______ slaves. In total, he brought roughly _________ people.
12,000
500
14,000
60,000