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1. What is the name of the world’s largest desert and in what part of Africa (north, south, east or west) would you find it? The worlds largest desert is the Sahara, and is located in the west. 2. In what part of Africa would you find the Niger river? The Nile River is located in the north of Africa.
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 * == **1. Africa Chapter Walk** == || Map p. 113

Environments of Africa 114-115 3. What type of environment is located just south of the Sahara? Desert is located south of the Sahara. 4. Which of the 3 environments shown would you want to live in? Why? I would want to live in the rainforest, because of the various amounts of animals.

Crossing the Sahara 120-121 5. What were some of the items traded across the Sahara? Salt, silk,spices, and Gold were valuables that were traded in the Sahara. 6. Why was salt a valuable trade item? Salt is valuable because you can preserve food and flavor food.

Timeline 126-127 7. About how many years passed after Ghana reached its height until Mali is established? It was about 175 years between the height of Ghana and until Mali was established. 8. What happened in France about the same time Mansa Musa went to Mecca? During that time the hundred year war began.

Ghana Empire Map p. 131 9. What goods (items) came to Ghana from the north? Ghana traded for ceramics, from the north.

Salt and Gold p. 132-133 10. How did Ghana’s rulers get rich? The rulers got rich from controlling the salt and gold trade. 11. Where did Ghana’s gold come from? Ghanas gold came from the south.

Overgrazing p. 135 12. What happens to the land if there is overgrazing? Overgrazing can lead to loss of farmland for West Africa.

Mali Empire Map p. 137 13. About how many miles across was the empire of Mali? There was about 1000 miles in the Mali empire. 14. On what river are Timbuktu and Gao located? Timbuktu and Gao were located on the Niger river.

Picture: Timbuktu p. 139 15. How did traders from the north bring their goods into Timbuktu? Goods would be brought from the north from camel caravan. 16. What problem could heavy rain cause? Heavy rain could cause the destruction of buildings.

Biography: Mansa Musa p. 141 17. What did Mansa Musa do that made him a major figure in world history? Mansa Musa was a major figure because on his great travel he would give out gold.

Oral Traditions p. 148 18. What was the griot’s job? Their job was remembering and passing there history done. || == **12/1** == || 11/29 || || == **12/1** == || 12/1/ || of Africa || turned in || == **12/1** == || 11/29 ||
 * == **2. 5.1 Study Guide** == || [|5.1 geog Africa_arcelita.doc]
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 * == 4. SAS Sahara Acitivity == || [|SaharaDesert1344_CompletionPage_Arcelitamartin.pdf] || ==12/2== || 11/29 ||
 * == **5. 5.2 Mini Poster/Prezi** == || turned in on paper || == **12/3** == || 12/6 ||
 * == **6.** Storytellers Maintain Oral History

== * Timbuktu and Djenne- universities and libraries


 * no early civilazations had developed written language


 * Arabic only wriiten language
 * people of west africa knew history through oral history
 * oral history is spoken mrecord of the past
 * job of passing history was storytellers
 * storytellers called griots- highly respected- kept history alive
 * the storyinformative and entertaining
 * Stories about kings, ANd the rise and fall of africa
 * griots also did proverbs- short sayins of wisdom or truth- used to teach lessons
 * to recite stories griots memorized hundreds of names and events
 * Some got confused in their head distorting history.
 * Some of the poems are epics - most of htem collected in the Dausi and the Sundiata
 * dausi tells history of ghana - with myths and legends
 * Sundiata- is about the empire Mali - first story about ruler
 * reAding check
 * because since they did not have a written language this is one of the only ways they kept there religions ||

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Mini Poster Summary The oral history was passed down by Griots, storytellers who were highly respected, in their tribes. The stories were very informative and entertaining; the stories were typically about kings, or rulers. Griots also did proverbs, short sayings of wisdom or truth. When they would recite these they would have to remember all the names and sometimes they would mix up the names, causing a change in history. The poems and the proverbs were located in the Dausi and the Sundiata. The Dausi tells the history of Ghana, while the Sundiata tells the history about Mali. We will have our power point and kyle and i will alternate reading the slides of information. Hopefullyy all goes well and we will read our concepts at the end as review.

Kyle has the quiz questions and the concepts.