the world’s the world’s largest largest desertdesert

Sahara

the division of the division of jobs and skills jobs and skills

in a societyin a society

labor specialization

Gold and ____ Gold and ____ became valuable became valuable trading goods in trading goods in

West AfricaWest Africa..

saltsalt

Which religion Which religion did merchants did merchants

bring to Ghana?bring to Ghana?

IslamIslam

oral historians oral historians and professional and professional

story tellers story tellers

griotsgriots

Which leader Which leader brought Islamic brought Islamic scholarship and scholarship and law to Songhai?law to Songhai?

Askia Askia MuhammadMuhammad

to exchange to exchange one good for one good for

anotheranother

barterbartersystemsystem

a religious a religious journey to the journey to the

holy city of holy city of MeccaMecca

pilgrimagepilgrimage

a large group a large group of traveling of traveling

Berbers and Berbers and animalsanimals

caravancaravan

raised flat raised flat regionregion

plateauplateau

Africa’s four main Africa’s four main vegetation zones are vegetation zones are the Mediterranean, the Mediterranean, desert, ______ and desert, ______ and

savanna.savanna.

rain forest rain forest

a broad a broad grassland with grassland with scattered treesscattered trees

savannasavanna

What did traders What did traders use instead of use instead of

horses to cross horses to cross the Sahara?the Sahara?

camelscamels

families of families of people related people related

by blood or by blood or marriagemarriage

clanclan

trade across trade across the Saharathe Sahara

Trans-Trans-SaharanSaharan

Why were slaves Why were slaves considered considered valuable in valuable in

Ghana?Ghana?

they were they were traded for other traded for other

goodsgoods

How did How did Ghana’s rulers Ghana’s rulers become rich?become rich?

they controlled they controlled the gold and the gold and salt routessalt routes

An over An over dependence on dependence on trade, ___ and trade, ___ and _____ caused _____ caused

Ghana to decline.Ghana to decline.

overpopulation overpopulation andand

food shortagefood shortage

Which type of Which type of government government

existed in African existed in African civilizations?civilizations?

monarchymonarchy

What interrupted What interrupted Ghana’s trade and Ghana’s trade and

weakened the weakened the monarchy?monarchy?

InvadersInvaders

Which empire Which empire took over the took over the

territory of territory of Ghana?Ghana?

MaliMali

Which empire Which empire conquered conquered

Mali?Mali?

SonghaiSonghai

Which empire Which empire conqueredconqueredSonghai?Songhai?

MoroccansMoroccans

A government A government ruled by a king ruled by a king

or queenor queen

monarchymonarchy

I am an I am an African king African king

who united the who united the people of Malipeople of Mali

SundiataSundiata

a center for a center for Islamic study Islamic study and learningand learning

TimbuktuTimbuktu

How did How did religion spread religion spread

throughout throughout Africa?Africa?

MerchantsMerchantsspread their spread their

religionreligion

I took the title I took the title sunnisunni and my and my

name means Ali name means Ali the Greatthe Great

Sunni AliSunni Ali

the holy book the holy book of Islamof Islam

QuranQuran

Name three of Name three of the five the five

African trading African trading empiresempires

GhanaGhanaMaliMali

SonghaiSonghaiAxumAxum

ZimbabweZimbabwe

The ___ The ___ conquered the conquered the

Songhai Songhai empire.empire.

MoroccansMoroccans

Which religion Which religion was practiced was practiced

in Axum?in Axum?

ChristianityChristianity

a person’s a person’s social classsocial class

castecaste

connection connection based on based on

family family relationshipsrelationships

kinshipkinship

a group of a group of people people

descended from descended from a common a common ancestorancestor

lineagelineage

shared shared culture, culture,

language and language and identityidentity

ethnic ethnic groupgroup

wise wise sayings sayings

proverbsproverbs

the spread of the spread of cultural beliefs cultural beliefs and ideas from and ideas from one group to one group to

anotheranother

cultural cultural diffusiondiffusion

How did Mansa How did Mansa Musa pilgrimage Musa pilgrimage

change the change the society?society?

Musa passed Musa passed out so much out so much gold gold that the that the

price of gold fellprice of gold fell

Which two goods Which two goods were most were most

important to early important to early trading empires?trading empires?

Gold Gold and and SaltSalt

How did Askia How did Askia Muhammad Muhammad

contribute to the contribute to the expansion of expansion of education?education?

Askia Muhammad Askia Muhammad made Timbuktu a made Timbuktu a

learning center and learning center and also set up schools also set up schools

and universitiesand universities

Mansa Musa Mansa Musa handed out gold as handed out gold as

he made his he made his pilgrimage to pilgrimage to

_______._______.

MakkahMakkah

As a leader, I took over As a leader, I took over Songhai and ordered local Songhai and ordered local

courts to follow Muslim courts to follow Muslim laws. I also helped laws. I also helped

Timbuktu become an Timbuktu become an important center for important center for

Islamic learning.Islamic learning.

AskiaAskiaMuhammadMuhammad

Give three Give three examples of examples of

cultural diffusion cultural diffusion in Africa.in Africa.

Africans adopted Africans adopted Islamic laws, Islamic laws,

ideas, ideas, architecture, and architecture, and

religion.religion.

Why was this city important to Mansa Musa?

All Muslims are All Muslims are expected to travel expected to travel

to Makkah at to Makkah at least once in their least once in their

lifetime.lifetime.

Learning to make Learning to make weapons from ____ weapons from ____

allowed early allowed early Africans an Africans an

advantage over advantage over neighbors.neighbors.

ironiron

Rain Rain ForestForest

SavannahSavannah

DesertDesert

MediterraneanMediterranean

The Journey of Mansa Musa