1. AFRICA VOCABULARY RECAP

2. EMPIRES
 Ghana
 Mali
 Songhai
 Almoravids
 Sundiata
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3. CITIES, AND LEADERS
 Sundiata
 Mansa Musa
 Askia Muhammad
 Timbuktu

4. TRADE-RELATED
 Tribute – payment or taxes
 Trade goods in West Africa
 What are these pictures of?
 Clockwise: Gold, salt, slaves

5. TRADE: READ & DEFINE IN OWN WORDS
 Trans-Saharan
Trade
 “trans” “across”
 “Saharan”  related
to Sahara Desert
 So “Trans-Saharan
Trade” means what?
 Caravan
 Group of people
traveling together
 Advantages of
traveling in a

6. MATCH THE WORD TO THE IMAGE
 Desert
 Savannah
 Rainforest

7. GEOGRAPHY OF AFRICA: AT A GLANCE
 Africa is mostly
made up of
what climate
zone?
Savanna
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 Sahara Desert
 Niger River

8. GEOGRAPHY: NIGER RIVER & SAHARA DESERT
 Niger River
 What do you
notice about
where the
Niger River is?
 Sahara Desert
 What modern
countries are
covered by the
Sahara?

9. MATRILINEAL VS. PATRILINEAL
 Things to consider:
 What do “Madre” and “Padre” mean
in Spanish?
 “Lineal”  related to lines (e.g.
“family lines”)
 Matrilineal
 Tracing family lines through the
mother’s side
 Patrilineal
 Tracing family lines through the
father’s side

10. ODDS & ENDS
 Oral tradition
 Griot – storyteller
 Clan
 Family group
 Kinship
 Connections between people through
blood, marriage, or adoption
 Labor specialization
 When people focus on specific jobs (i.e. instead
of doing everything themselves)