| A | B |
|---|
| Soninkes | "go-between" salt and gold traders |
| Muslims | traded salt |
| Wanguras | traded gold |
| caravan | group of traders traveling together |
| Ghana | the empire of the Soninkes |
| tariff | tax |
| monopoly | when one person controls the price of s/t |
| Mansa Masu | the leader of the Mali empire |
| Mecca | the Muslim holy city |
| Timbuktu | a Muslim center of trade and learning |
| number system | Muslims borrowed from Asian Indians |
| geometry | Muslims borrowed from the Greeks |
| Al Khwarizm | an important Muslim mathematician |
| Islam | a religion that has one God |
| Hinduism | a religion that has many gods |
| castes | the Hindu social system |
| Silk Road | a famous trade route |
| Mongols | invaded some of the Muslim empire |
| algebra | first book written by Al Khwarizm |
| savanna | open grassland |
| Africa | the second largest continent |
| Sahara | the world's largest desert |
| West Africa's population grew quickly because | there were lots of animals to hunt and fertile soil to grow food |
| the Noks grew powerful | because they used iron for tools and weapons |
| The Soninkes used water from | the Niger river |
| the Soninkes got rich by | middle-manning gold and salt trade |
| the trade routes across the empire of Ghana were kept safe by | the ghanaian military |
| Who eventually defeated the Ghanaian empire? | the Berbers |
| The Ghanaian empire's wealth came from | trade and tariffs |
| Muslim traders taught Africans | about money and Islam |
| the Malinkes lived in | Mali |
| Mansa Musa encouraged | study and learning |
| Mansa Musa's pilgimmage to Mecca encouraged | interest in the empires of West Africa |
| The Songhays controlled | trade in Jenne, Timbuktu, and Gao |
| The Songhays were eventually defeated by the | Morrocans |
| The Morrocans won because they had | guns |
| The people who passed down history by word of mouth were called | griots |
| Extensive trade led to | the exchange of goods and ideas |
| Caravansaries were | inns where traders could stop and rest |
| dinars | coins made of gold |
| The number system we use today comes from | Muslim trade with India |
| The Muslims made important advances in | medicine, astronomy, geography, and math |
| cartographers | mapmakers |
| The flow of ideas from Muslim lands led to the development of | literature |
| Baghdad was invaded by the | Mongols |
| The Mongols controlled many lands, and established | peace, law, and order |
| The Silk Road was | a way into Asia for European merchants and travelers |
| Merchants traveled to the Mongol empire to buy | spices, pearls, carpets and silk. |
| When the Silk Road became dangerous, Europeans began using | sea routes. |
| Some goods that traveled along the Silk Road were | coconuts, salt, and a scented wood called aloe |
