Which body of water is number 2 pointing to?

Which body of water is number 3 in?

Which body of water is number 4 pointing to?

Which body of water is number 5 in?

Which feature is number 6 on?

Which feature is number 7 on?

Which feature is number 8 on?

Which feature is number 9 on?

Which feature is number 10 on?

Area in Africa located below the Sahara Desert

When livestock eat most of the grass and leave the ground exposed to the sun.

Family outside of a mother, father, and children

Semi-desert vegetation zone located in Western Africa

A method of trading used between two or more people who do not speak the same language

Tropical area with many trees and heavy rainfall

Traveling poets, musicians, and storytellers in West Africa

Area in Africa with higher rainfall, tall grasses, and trees

long, deep valleys formed by the movement of the earth’s crust.

The belief that unseen spirits of ancestors stay near. A person can worship an ancestor to seek guidance in life.

Descended through the mother’s side of the family.

The belief that bodies of water, animals, trees, and other natural objects have spirits.

Geography: The Kingdom of Ghana was located between what two rivers?

Economy: What two major resources were equally valued and traded in Ghana?

Achievements: What type of items did the people of Ghana make when they discovered iron?

Economy: What term do historians call groups of traders that traveled along trade routes in North Africa on camelback?

Religion: Which religion of the people of Ghana believed that plants, natural objects, and natural phenomena could have a soul?

Economy/ Government: What did Ghana demand from neighboring tribes in exchange for agreeing not to attack?

Government: When Sundiata overthrew the weakened emperor of Ghana, he increased the territory of his empire to include more what?

Economy: Which product did Sundiata introduce to the people of his expanded empire that helped them stay cool in their hot climate?

Religion: In addition to animism, the people of Mali believed that their leadership could provide food by communicating with who?

Achievements: Muslim leader Mansa Musa not only took his pilgrimage to Mecca, but he also believed in learning for all people. As a result of this belief, what did he have built in Timbuktu?

Economy: Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage to Mecca spread news of his generosity and wealth, and eventually how did it improve Mali’s economy?

Geography/ Government: Songhai attacked and conquered the Kingdom of Mali, but kept which city as their capital along the Niger River?

Government/ Leadership: Which leader from Songhai increased Songhai’s power, organized providences with local leadership, and returned Timbuktu and Djenne to their former glory as learning centers?

Religion/ Government: Why did Muslim leadership in the Kingdom of Songhai allow their people to continue their animism and ancestral worship?

Economy: Which of the following was NOT a major trade item in the Kingdom of Songhai?