TN READY REVIEW WEST AFRICA GRADE

Sequence of West African Empires

• Ghana, Mali, Songhai

• Mali, Ghana, Songhai

• Songhai, Mali, Ghana

Two major trading products of West Africa

• gold

• salt

• silk

• textiles

3 Characteristics of traditional West African Griots

• oral history

• geneology

• drama and music

• written stories

At height of Mali Kingdom

• Abu Bakr

• Muhammad

• Mansa Musa

• Suleiman I

Pick 4 characteristics of traditional African religions

• high god with lessor gods

• belief that ancestor spirts influenced lives and people would ask lesser spirits/ancestors to intervene for them with the supreme god

• cermonies were carried out by families or shamans

• animism

• monotheism

Tracing the lineage through the mother is ______________ while tracing the lineage through the father is ______________

• matrilineal; patrilineal

• patrilineal, matrilineal

• matrinlineal; fatalineal

• grannylineal; papawlineal

Important trading cities of West Africa where trade, learning, and culture grew.

• Djenne and Timbuktu

• Timbuktu and Constantinople

• Djenne and Rome

• Timbuktu and Cairo

Pick 3 major trading exchanges of West Africa

• gold

• salt

• slaves

• silk

• spices

Pick 3 impacts of Mansa Musa's hajj.

• Made Mali a famous kingdom for learning, trade, and Islam

• Gave away so much gold that it caused its value to drop causing inflation

• Many Muslim scholars came to Timbuktu to visit the university, libraries and mosques

• Many Muslim scholars came to Timbuktu to visit the Christian churches Mansa Musa built

Pick the 3 cities most affected by Mansa Musa's Hajj.

• Cairo

• Mecca/Makkah

• Medina

• Constantinople