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Medieval Africa
Africa in the Middle Ages
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A type of vegetation zone, that is warm dry and has lots of grass | Savanna |
| A type of vegetation zone that is hot and very dry with very little or no rain | Desert |
| A powerful West African Kingdom that grew rich because of trade (400-1200) | Ghana |
| A large empire that took over West Africa after the Ghana Empire fell apart (1200-1450) | Mali |
| Trans-Saharan means | Across the Sahara (desert) |
| Largest desert in West Africa? | Sahara |
| Long trains of camels traveling together on trading trips | Caravan |
| A shared system of beliefs of a group of people (ideas, religion, government, music, food etc) | culture |
| Powerful king of Mali Empire who converted to Islam and made a pilgrimage to Mecca | Mansa Musa |
| What trade route spread Islam into Africa? | Trans-Sahara |
| What religion was spread through the Trans-Sahara trade route? | Islam |
| What did the king of Ghana do to make the empire of Ghana wealthy? | Taxed merchants who came to Ghana to trade |