| A | B |
|---|
| The only written language used by the major early civilizations of West Africa | Arabic |
| A spoken record of past events | Oral history |
| Storytellers of early West Africa | Griots |
| Short sayings of wisdom or truth | Proverbs |
| An Arab scholar and one of the first people to write about West Africa | al-Masudi |
| The last of the major Muslim visitors to West Africa | Leo Africanus |
| Material used to make African masks | Wood |
| Brightly colored fabric woven by hand | Kente |
| An empire in West Africa that became a powerful state | Ghana |
| Useful in making weapons and farm tools | Iron |
| Used to preserve food and made bland food tasty | Salt |
| A series of steps by which a task is accomplished | Process |
| Threatened by nomadic herders, these farmers banded together for protection and became the first Ghanaians | Soninke |
| Process in which people exchange goods without ever contacting each other directly | Silent barter |
| Ghana's main city, an oasis for travelers, and a great trading center | Koumbi Saleh |
| Ghanaian king with a splendid court where he displayed the wealth of the empire | Tunka Manin |
| Attacked Ghana in the 1060's | Almoravids |
| Charged by Ghana's rulers entering and leaving Ghana | Taxes |
