World History - Africa

Moroccan Muslim scholar, the most widely traveled individual of his time.

• Marco Polo

• Ibn Battuta

• Ghenghis Khan

• Kublai Khan

Season winds in the Indian Ocean caused by the differences in temperature between the rapidly heating and cooling landmasses of Africa and Asia

• Tropics

• Monsoons

• Hurricane

• Tropical Storm

Empire created by indigenous Muslims in western Sudan of West Africa in the 13th century

• Mali

• Ghana

• Songhai

• Great Zimbabawae

Ruler of Mali who led a pilgrimage to Mecca

• Mansa Musa

• Ibn Battuta

• Sundiata

• King Sumanguru

City, now in ruins (in the modern African country of Zimbabwe), whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450, when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state

• Great Zimbabwe

• Sultan Muhummad Tughlug

• Firuz Shah

• Bahmani

Region of western India famous for trade and manufacturing

• Gujarat

• Mali

• Ghan

• Timbuktu

City on the Niger River in the modern country of Mali

• Timbuktu

• Mali

• Ghana

• Songhai

East African shores of the Indian Ocean between the Horn of Africa and the Zambezi River

• Swahili Coast

• African Coastline

What did Ghana, Mali, and Songhai all have in common?

• They were all Muslim
• They were all around at the same time
• They never converted to Islam
• They all controlled the trade resources in West Africa at some point.

What three empires in western Africa flourished because of the trans-Saharan trade of gold and salt?

• Mali, Axum, Zimbabwe
• Ghana, Mali, Songhai
• Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana
• Timbuktu, Ethiopia, Mali