Africa

The image above illustrates Trans-Saharan trade.  What made this trade so important?

• Required merchants to cross the Saharan Desert

• Trade of gold and salt made Arabs and Africans wealthy

• Without this trade, merchants would have nothing to sell

• Trans Saharan trade began the Slave trade

first West African Empire that became wealthy through controlling the salt and gold trade.

• Ghana

• Mali

• Songhai

• Griots

second West African empire that prospered from gold-salt trade. After converting to Islam, became a center of Muslim culture.

• Ghana

• Mali

• Songhai

• Griots

largest of the West African trading empires, known for spreading Islam and the Arabic language in West Africa.

• Ghana

• Mali

• Songhai

• Griot

Professional story-tellers or oral historians; record keepers of their culture

• Professors

• Griots

• Proverbs

• Kinship

wise sayings that are quick ways of sharing wisdom

• Griots

• Folk Tale

• Kinship

• Proverbs

Which statement explains the fall of the Songhai Empire?

• The government was weak and civil wars broke out.

• The gold and salt mines stopped producing enough to support the empire.

Ghana, Mali, and Songhai developed in what part of Africa?

• West Africa

• East Africa

• North Africa 

• South Africa

Which Kingdom would Mansa Musa be associated with?

• Ghana

• Mali

• Songhai

In which Kingdom was the Slave Trade important?

• Ghana

• Mali

• Songhai