Beginning around A.D. 750, West African kingdoms began the _______________ with Arab traders. During this trade, they not only exchanged goods, but also exchanged ideas about learning, law, and religion.

_______________ occurs when one power creates an empire by taking over other areas.

_______________ ruled the Mali empire from about 1312 to 1337. His 1324 religious journey to Mecca strengthened Mali’s ties with North Africa and drew the world’s attention to the empire.

_______________ took place between Europe, Africa, and the British colonies in the Americas.

1. Cloth, beer, and guns were shipped from Britain to West Africa.
2. African traders sold slaves for the goods from Europe, and then slaves were shipped across the Atlantic to the Americas.
3. In the Americas, the slaves were sold for goods (ex: lumber, rice, indigo, tobacco, sugar), which were shipped back to Britain.

In the _______________ , European leaders met in 1884 to divide up territory in Africa to rule, with no input from African leaders. By about 1900, Europe had claimed and controlled nearly the entire continent.

In the mid-1400s, the _______________ took over much of West and Central Africa to become the largest in African history.

The _______________ flourished between 600 and 1200 and ruled over much of present-day Mali and Mauritania.

In 1324, Mansa Musa made a spectacular _______________ to the Arabian city of Mecca.

_______________ was founded in about A.D. 1100, located along the edge of the Sahara Desert. It not only thrived as a center of trade and of Islamic learning but was also considered a college town; it was home to the University of Sankore.

Thousands of captive Africans died during the grueling journey of the _______________ , which was the voyage across the Atlantic that formed a leg of the triangular trade.

In 1240, the leader of the _______________ attacked Ghana’s last strongholds, swallowing up the old empire. It remained the greatest empire in West and Central Africa until about the mid-1400s.

On the timeline of Western & Central African history, the time period of 600 A.D. to the mid-1200s could BEST be described as the time of the

On the timeline of Western & Central African history, the time period of 1000 A.D. to about 1400 A.D. could BEST be described as the time of the

On the timeline of Western & Central African history, the time period of the mid-1400s A.D. to the early 1600s A.D. could BEST be described as the time of the

On the timeline of Western & Central African history, the time period of the early 1500s A.D. to the early 1800s A.D. could BEST be described as the time of the