West Africa I

religion introduced to West Africa by Berber and Arab merchants and traders

• Islam

• Christianity

• Judaism

• Buddhism

A member of a class of storytellers who maintain a tradition of oral history in parts of West Africa.

• griot

• Mansa

• Bedouin

• Berber

The largest desert in the world, covering most of northern Africa

• Sahara Desert

• Arabian Desert

• Gobi Desert

• Mojave Desert

Major trade route across the Sahara Desert that created economic benefits for African kingdoms

• Trans-Saharan Trade

• Indian Ocean Complex

• Silk Road

• Mediterranean Sea Complex

Ideal method of travel across the Sahara desert by merchants and traders

• camels

• horses

• donkeys

• alpaca

Stories passed down from generation to generation in a spoken tradition. The stories often had a lesson to learn.

• Oral History

• Proverbs

• Fable

• Fairtale

[Efficient farming- ?- people work in specialized trade/work- trade] shows a sequence of changes that started when The The diagram shows a sequence of changes that started when farming became more productive.

• surplus of food and population growth

• better housing

• improved technology

• isolated cities

Four types of settlement are listed below. In which order would you put them if you were going from smallest to largest? [1. city, 2. extended family community, 3. kingdom, 4. village]

• 2,4,1,3

• 1,4,2,3

• 2,1,4,3

• 4,2,1,3

What was one economic effect of the four vegetation zones in West Africa?

• People from different zones traded with each other

• Most of the people lived as nomads

• Most of the people lived in one zone

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  People from different zones spoke different languages

What is one example of how geography affected the lives of people in West Africa?

• They used the Niger River for trading

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  Most people in West Africa ate yams

• 
  They used iron tools for farming

• Most people in West Africa worshipped the sun