SS Chapter 4 Ghana

What religion played a central role in the lives of most West African people?

What is another reason why Ghana was weakened?

Children and __ were made to go deep into the mines to find gold.

Ghana became wealthy because of gold and salt.

A group of people traveling together

Ghana taxed everything that went in and out of the kingdom and this helped them become wealthy.

Which group of people in Ghana kept the gold mines a secret?

Ghana did not become wealthy through the slave trade.

Uses patterns to tell specific stories and histories of families and tribes

What is one way that geography influenced the physical location of Djenne and Timbuktu?

To claim land for a nation by establishing a settlement

What role did griots play in Ghana?

Ghana became wealthy because of gold and silver.

past events shared by spoken stories and songs

What religion was introduced by the Trans-Saharan Caravan trade around 700 C.E. in West Africa?

Which natural resources did Ghana trade to become successful?

The Sahara Desert is the size of Asia.

What religion was introduced even earlier but didn't spread much until Europeans colonized Africa?

Uses words to tell traditional stories

native; original to a place

What is another way that geography influenced the location of Djenne and Timbuktu?

What is another phrase that best describes the geographic features of West Africa?

The Sahara Desert is the largest desert in the world.

What was one reason Ghana fell?

Used to mark important occasions and celebrations and communicates histories and values

Used symbols as authority and power and also communicates histories and values

Ghana was the first successful West African Kingdom.

Kente cloth, oral traditions, sculptures, and singing, drumming, and dancing all

West African storytellers and poets who recalled historical events and transmitted history from generation to generation

The Niger River is only used for agriculture and fishing.

What is one phrase best describes the geographic features of West Africa?

The belief that animals, plants, and even inanimate objects have spirits

of or relating to the mouth; spoken

What did Ghana use for money?

traditional, colorful patterned, handwoven cloth from West Africa

The Niger River is the largest River in West Africa.