West Africa Vocabulary

To exchange (goods or services) for other goods or services without using money.

• Tribute

• Caravan

• Barter

• Trade

A financial gain, usually when one sells something for more than they paid.

• Profit

• Folk Tale

• Barter

• Money

Buying and selling goods and services.

• Smelting

• Trade

• Commodity

• Exchange

An economic good; something useful or valued.

• Genealogy

• Common

• Trade

• Commodity

The process of melting ore to produce iron or other metals from it.

• Caravan

• Smelting

• Griot

• Profit

Payment made by one ruler or country to another for protection or as a sign of submission.

• Griot

• Barter

• Commodity

• Tribute

The first West African ruler to practice Islam devoutly.

• Mansa Musa

• Griot

• Folk Tale

• Muhammad

A group of traders traveling together.

• Smelting

• Profit

• Caravan

• Camels

Learning and cultural ideas passed down orally(verbally), from one generation to the next.

• Griot

• Profit

• Oral Tradition

• Smelting

A story that is passed down orally and becomes part of a culture’s tradition.

• Mansa Musa

• Oral Tradition

• Folk Tale

• Caravan