| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Land of Gold | Arab scholars described Ghana as: |
| Arab Scholars | Who painted Ghana as a Rich Kingdom with a strong government and a large and powerful army? |
| A Powerful King | Ghana was ruled by: |
| The King | In Ghana, who led the people in religious worship? |
| Control of the Gold Trade | How did the King of Ghana acquired great wealth? |
| Gold | Ghana collected taxes on what as it pass through the Kingdom: |
| Control of Gold | How did the King preserve his wealth? |
| The King | All gold nuggets must be given to whom? |
| Gold Dust | Since the King have the gold, the people can only have what? |
| 40 pounds | In the legend, how big was the gold use as a hitching post for his horse? |
| King | Who usually wear beautiful cloths and fine jewelry when he hold court? |
| The People | Each day, the king held court with whom? |
| gold dust | The people showed their respect for him by kneeling and throwing what on their head as he approached: |
| matrilineal | What is based on a woman's family line? |
| King's Sister's son | In Ghana, who took over the throne when the King died? |
| Regular Army, Reserve Forces and the Elite Soldiers | Ghana Military was made up of: |
| headdresses | A soldier with a decorative covering worn on the head, often as a sign of rank? |
| weapons | What is a spears, daggers swords, battle clubs, and bows and arrows use by a soldier? |
| Reserve Forces | What is call up when additional forces and troops were needed by the king? |
| Elite Soldiers | What soldier was selected for their courage, honesty and intelligence? |
| Cowrie Shells | What was use as money in Ghana? |
| Trans-Saharan Trade | Due the Ghana's location, it allowed it to control what? |
| Camel and Islam | What two factors spurred the growth in the Trans-Saharan Trade? |
| 25 gallons | A camel can drink how up to how many gallons of water at a time? |
| Double rows of eyelashes and hairy ear openings | What keep out sand out of the camel ways? |
| South Africa | By the fourth century, gold were minted into Roman coins in North Africa, where did the gold come from? |
| Muslims | In the seventh century, who invaded Ghana's empire? |
| Muslim merchants | When Ghana turned back the invaders, who settled in West African towns and became what? |
| wealthy | When control of the Trans-Saharan Trade made Ghana what? |
| 1000 | By what year did Ghana's empire dominated the trade routes between North and West Africa? |
| Ibn Battuta | In 1352 What Muslim historian and traveler crossed the Sahara with a trade caravan? |
| Gold and Salt | What is two items is most traded in Ghana? |
| Wangara | Where is the secret source of gold? |
| coins | What do Muslim land and Italy need gold for? |
| China | Who do Muslim use to purchase silk and porcelain from? |
| To keep food from spoiling | What do people use salt for? |
| Salt | What is the reason why Taghaza existed? |
| caravans | What do miner in Taghaza rely on for their supply? |
| taxes | What do trader paid to Ghana on all the goods carried through the empire? |
| one sixth of an ounce of gold | How much tax is paid for each load of salt? |
| one third of an ounce of gold | How much tax is paid for load of gold? |
| deposit | What is a layer or mass of a material found in rock or in the ground? |
| digging | Sometime salt is made by the evaporation the water in areas called salt flats, other is mined by what? |
| Taxes | What is use to pay for protection of the kingdom and allowed the king to conquer other territories? |
| bandits | Traders benefited as well because Ghana protected the trade routes from who that may rob the caravans? |
| Kumbi | What is the busiest market in West Africa? |
| Ironsmiths | Weapons and Tools are sold by? |
| Goldsmiths and coppersmiths | Who sold Jewelry? |
| Taghaza | What village is build with salt? |
| There lives | What would miner give up before giving the secret source of the gold? |
| Kumbi | Which city have the largest slave markets in West Africa? |
| Wangarans | Lot's of trade were done along a river in the southern forests in what city? |
| 1000 ce | Ghana's empire reached its height around what year? |
| Almoravids | In the second half of the 11th century, what Muslim warriors attacking Ghana's empire? |
| 1203 | Th Ghana's empire came to an end in what year? |
| Mande | In 1240 a group of West Africans called what conquered Kumbi and made there homeland of Mali south of Kumbi? |
| Muslim | Like Ghana, Mali gained much of its wealth from the control of trade, its leaders had accepted what as there religious faith? |
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