History: chap 5 all lessons
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- people who are skilled at making things with their hands
- craftspeople
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If a clan owed money to another clan, it would repay its debt by sending:
A-some members out to the other clan as temperary slaves
B-its warriors into battle for the other clan - A-some members out to the other clan as temperary slaves
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The Nok people were the first West Africans to:
A-use camels to cross the Sahara
B-make iron - B- make iron
- The Almoravids brought about the _________ of the Soninke empire of Ghana.(downfall or growth)
- downfall
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In 5000 B.C. the Sahara desert was:
A-much as it is today
B-a land of rich soil and grasses and flowing rivers - B a land of rich soil and grasses and flowing rivers
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Villagers to contact and please the spiritsd of their dead relatives:
A-through music and dancing
B-by building great temples - A-through music and dancing
- good for plants to grow in
- fertile
- Arab traders taught the West Africans ____________.(writing and number systems or how to get salt out of salt water)
- writing and number systems
- a person who makes pottery
- potter
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The most important activity in early West african village was:
A-fishing in the Niger River
B-rasing food - B-rasing food
- flat land near a river that may be covered with water during a flood
- flood plain
- not enough to give people as much as they need
- scarce
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As Africans left the Sahara to find better farm land they settled along the banks of the:A-Niger river
B-Nile river - A- Niger river
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West African Farmers used ways of faaarmming so they could:
A-farm in different types of land or climate
B-farm large areas together as a clan -
A-farm in different types of land or climate
- to grow or do very well
- flourish
- In Ghana when a king died the person named as the new king was______________.(the kings son or the kings sisters son)
- the kings sisters son
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Wes t African villages beleived that the spirits of thier ancestors:
A-became gods themselves
B-could swaythe Gods in the villages favor - B-could swaythe Gods in the villages favor
- Ghanas location between the salt mines and the gold feilds helped it to become a major___________(port or trading center)
- trading center
- The Songhai kingdom fell when soilders from Morroco armed with_______ attacked it.(guns or catapults)
- guns
- to change from one way to another
- convert
- rural
- connected with the country, country life or people in the countrry
- the act of following another person to a title or throne
- succession
- people who study science culture and the arts
- scholar
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willingly letting other people have ideas or ways of doing things that are different from ones own
- tolerent
- a supposed way of using charms or spellsto control others
- magic
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The NOk people used iron to:
A-make weopons, farm tools, and sculptures
B- build great temples -
A-make weopons, farm tools, and sculptures
- indigenous
- oriclly tied to a given place without out side influence
- Many countries used________ from Ghana as money(salt or gold)
- gold
- the give and take of goods or money
- exchange
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Food was so plentiful for the people of Jenne-jeno that:
A-they had time for jewlery making, sculpture,and other crafts
B-they held great feasts -
A-they had time for jewlery making, sculpture,and other crafts
- After the Mali ruler Mansa Musa died a ___________ prince gained control and staarted expanding his empire.(Berber or Songhai)
- Songhai
- edible
- safe to eat
- Less than 100 years after Ghana's defeat,________ was the most powerful kingdom in Africa(Mali or Nigeria)
- Mali
- inherit
- to receive money or property after some ones death
- one who rules over a state, usually for life, who has been born to the position
- monarch
- In the 1300s, Eurepeon mapmakers began putting Mali on maps of Africa because of its role in ____________.(spreading Islam or international trade)
- international trade
- kin
- a persons relatives and family