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S.S. Chapter 11
overland trade
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| grassy plain | savanna |
| hot wet land with trees so tall that they block the sunlight | tropical rain forest |
| tariff | taxes |
| mansa | rulers |
| Africa is the ____________in the world | second largest continent |
| The Great Rift Valley stretches_________ through____ | North and South, East Africa |
| It is one of the worlds__________ | longest and deepest valley systems |
| The Sahara is the world's ___ | largest desert |
| The people of Ghana were the earliest known _______ in West Africa | iron users |
| As time passed, each Ghanaian king __________ | won authority over more kingdoms |
| The kings then charged_____on all goods passing through the savanna | tariffs |
| Mansa musa and his pilgrimage helped make the empire of Mali______ | known far and wide |
| After Mali weakened the________empire rose | Songhay |
| oasis | water hole |
| inns where travelers could find food and shelter | caravansaries |
| cartographer | mapmakers |
| what in the desert trade routes were the main transportation | single-humped camels |
| the Arab scholar fully developed the study of Algebra | al-Khubrizmi |
| A new wave of law and order | made travel and trade much safer along the Silk Road |
| The Silk Road was a way into | Asia for European merchants and travelers |
| Travel along the Silk Road became | dangerous |
| without safe land routes | Europeans depended more on sea routes to reach the treasures of China |