African Trade Empires

What is the purpose of the Great Green Wall?

• To keep the Sahara desert from spreading farther south, and allow more land to grow crops.

• To keep dangerous animals out of southern Africa.

• To create a 'rain shadow,' and allow more dry air into southern Africa.

• No one knows. It just appeared one day.

What commodities (goods) did people trade, in the West African trade empires?

• gold

• salt

• cloth

• all of these, and more!

During what centuries were the African trade empires most powerful (bigger than most European kingdoms?)

• the 1900s until the present day

• 800 BC through AD 100

• the 500s through the 1300s

• so long ago that historians can't say for sure

Which was the first of the great trading empires?

• Mali

• Songhai

• Great Zimbabwe

• Ghana

Which two commodities were Ghana's biggest moneymakers?

• cloth and books

• salt and gold

• ivory and copper

• weapons and salt

In the A.D. 1200s, which other trading power conquered Ghana?

• the North Pole

• Mali

• Songhai

• Great Zimbabwe

What is a griot?

• a storyteller

• an economic leader

• a train of camels and / or horses used to transport trade goods, equipment, and people

• a kind of mineral mined in the desert, and usually traded for food

Sundiata Keita, the king responsible for the rise of Mali, conquered territory that stretched from where to where?

• the Atlantic Ocean to Timbuktu

• the North Pole to the South Pole

• the Pacific Ocean to the city of Gao

• Songhai to Great Zimbabwe

Who was Mali's most powerful king?

• Sundiata Keita (the 'Lion Prince')

• Tutankhamun

• Mansa Musa

• Seti IV

Mansa Musa is especially famous for a journey he took. What was that journey called?

• the Great Pilgrimage

• the Grand Caravan

• the hajj

• the Decathalon