Ch 5 Sub-Saharan Africa
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- What was the Sahara like in 5000 B.C.
- lush and green
- Why did residents of the Sahara leave between 5000 and 2500 B.C.
- the climate became drier and hotter
- The terrain of the most southern part of West Africa is made up of ?
- grasslands and rain forests
- The Nok people settled near the Niger so they could:
- farm the rich soil and establish a river trade route
- What did Arab traders bring to West Africa?
- Islam and a system of writing and numbers
- Where did most West Africans live?
- in small farming villages
- What was the ideal crop for West Africa's wetter regions?
- rice
- What were most people in West Africa before iron weapons?
- hunter-gatherers
- Mansa Musa's pilgrimage had the following results on Mali:
- Mali was included on maps and government officials wrote in Arabic
- North Africans traded ______ for _______ with West Africans.
- salt for gold
- What did Askia Muhammad declare to be the official religion of Songhai?
- Islam
- Mansa Musa was ruler of which African empire?
- Mali
- Which African empire became known as a great center of trade, culture and learning?
- Songhai
- Which African empire was at the center of a lucrative trade route that ran from the salt mines to the gold fields?
- Ghana
- Which African empire was defeated by Moroccan invasions?
- Songhai
- Arab scholars in the 1300s began to flock to this empire's centers of learning.
- Mali
- This term means grasslands
- savanna
- This means "shore of the desert"
- Sahel
- This formed the basis of village life in West Africa
- kinship
- A villager would go to this person to communicate with spirits
- diviner
- A villager would go to this person to hear a tale of Africa's history
- griot