West Africa Vocab

Question 1

Griot

Answer 1

A west African storyteller, singer, musician, and oral historian

Question 2

Mali empire

Answer 2

A kingdom that was a major trade network

Question 3

Ghana empire

Answer 3

A trading empire that ruled West Africa from about 830 to 1235 CE

Question 4

Songhai Empire

Answer 4

A , great trading state of West Africa (flourished 15th–16th century), centered on the middle reaches of the Niger River eventually extending west to the Atlantic coast and east into Niger and Nigeria.

Question 5

Berber

Answer 5

Any of the descendants of the pre-Arab inhabitants of North Africa.

Question 6

Mansa Musa

Answer 6

The ruler of the kingdom of Mali from 1312 C.E. to 1337 C.E. During his reign, Mali was one of the richest kingdoms of Africa, and Mansa Musa was among the richest individuals in the world.

Question 7

Ibn Battuta

Answer 7

Ibn Battuta was a medieval Muslim traveler who wrote one of the world’s most famous travel logs, the Rihlah

Question 8

Trans Saharan Caravan Trade

Answer 8

trade between sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa that requires travel across the Sahara

Question 9

Djenne

Answer 9

An important trading center, Djenné, arose about 250 BCE in the inland delta of the Niger River

Question 10

Timbuktu

Answer 10

Timbuktu primarily gained its wealth from local gold and salt mining, in addition to the trans-Saharan slave trade