SS M2 Chapter 1

How did West African empires build wealth?

• Controlling religion

• Building mosque

• Controlling gold mines and trade routes

• Traveling to other empires

Why was gold valuable?

• it was rare

• it's malleabillity

• its beauty

• it was shiny

How did Kings and the Kingdom of Ghana become so wealthy?

• Camels

• Taxed traders

• Sold resources

• Taxed citizens

What natural resources were found in Ghana?

• Gold

• Salt

• Mosque

• Iron

What NEW religion was BROUGHT to Ghana?

• Aninism

• Islam

• Christanity

• Jewish

How did Islam spread to Ghana?

• Muslim traders shared their religion

• Crusades

• King took over and changed the kingdoms religion

• War

Control of ________ made West African Kingdoms powerful

• kings

• camels

• Mosque

• gold-salt trade

Ghana was weakened by

• Surfs

• conflict

• Islam

• climate change

Ghana became an ______ society, replacing its former religion ________.

• Animism, Islamic

• Islamic, Animism

• Islam, Christanity

• Christan, Islam

Kings owned gold ________

• specks

• nuggets

• dust

• bars