TCI Lesson 23 Vocab

The definition of convert is...

• To eat poisenous food

• To change one’s belief on something

• To reverse the roles of someones job

• To take someones job

What does it mean to be completely committed to something; Loyal

• Perilous

• Constant

• Devoted

• Treacherous

Geometric means...

• Mathmatically incorrect

• A study in science

• A section of math that uses only fractions

• One or a number of simple shapes, such as triangles, squares, or circles

What was the West African empire ruled by the Mande that became a major crossroads of the Islamic world

• Mali

• Miami

• Mississippi

• Ghana

Mansa Musa was...

• The builder of a great empire in West Africa

• The son of the first West African ruler

• The inventor of the microwave

• The first West African ruler to practice Islam devoutly

What is a family line traced through the father?

• Benevolent

• Just family

• Patrilineal

• Maternal

Philosophy is...

• The study of wisdom, knowledge, and the nature of reality

• The study of Earth's resources

• The study of human behavior

• The study of plants

Songhai was...

• The name of the dungeon that held bad people in the empire of Mali

• A people who broke away from the empire of Mali and eventually built their own vast empire in West Africa

• A large family that decided to cross the Sahara desert together

• A group of well-known thieves in Mali

What are textiles?

• Tiles that were used to make floors in Mali

• Broken bits of rock that fit together in a manner to make a picture

• Woven cloth

• A type of rock that was used to make murals

What does tolerance mean?

• To be sympathetic and accepting of what others believe or do, even if those ideas differ from your own

• To reject people based off their looks

• To not be accepting of anything

• To be rude to someone; cruel