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2. $100 Question from Section One
What important feature of West Africa provides food, water, and transportation?

3. $100 Answer from Section One
What is the Niger River?

4. $200 Question from Section One
What is a strip of land with little rainfall that divides the desert from wetter areas?

5. $200 Answer from Section One
What is a Sahel?

6. $300 Question from Section One
What is the name for open grassland with scattered trees?

7. $300 Answer from Section One
What is a Savannah?

8. $400 Question from Section One
What is the term for moist, densely wooded areas?

9. $400 Answer from Section One
What are Rainforests?

10. $500 Question from Section One
An important West African belief was that bodies of water, animals, trees, and other natural objects have spirits. What is the term for this?

11. $500 Answer from Section One
What is Animism?

12. $100 Question from Section Two
What item was so important in West Africa around 1000 that people traded gold for it?

13. $100 Answer from Section Two
What is Salt?

14. $200 Question from Section Two
Ghana controlled trade in West Africa. What was it called when people traded goods without contacting each other directly?

15. $200 Answer from Section Two
What is a Silent Barter?

16. $300 Question from Section Two
As a result of the large amount of trading in Ghana, the rulers decided to charge traders what in order to make more money?

17. $300 Answer from Section Two
What are Taxes?

18. $400 Question from Section Two
Ghana was rich and powerful but by 1200 the empire started to decline. What is one of the three factors that led to the decline of the Ghana Empire?

19. $400 Answer from Section Two
What is Invasion, Overgrazing, or Internal Rebellion? .

20. $500 Question from Section Two
There were two major things that helped Ghana thrive. One was the production of gold. The other was the control of what?

21. $500 Answer from Section Two
What are Trade Routes?

22. $100 Question from Section Three
The empire of Mali reached its height under which ruler?

23. $100 Answer from Section Three
Who is Mansa Musa?

24. $200 Question from Section Three
Who built a new Islamic empire in West Africa, conquering many of the lands that were once part of Mali?

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Who are The Songhai?

26. $300 Question from Section Three
_____ ________ was a powerful state that developed in southern Africa.

27. $300 Answer from Section Three
What is Great Zimbabwe?

28. $400 Question from Section Three
Like Ghana, Mali lays along which river?

29. $400 Answer from Section Three
What is the Niger River?

30. $500 Question from Section Three
Who became the ruler of Songhai when he was nearly 50 years old?

31. $500 Answer from Section Three
Who is Askia the Great?

32. $100 Question from Section 4
What do you call the kind of history that is a spoken record of the past?

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What is oral history?

34. $200 Question from Section 4
What were the storytellers or early West Africa called?

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Who are the Griots?

36. $300 Question from Section 4
What were the Griots short sayings of wisdom or truth called?

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What are proverbs?

38. $400 Question from Section 4
Written accounts of ______ have helped preserve West Africans history.

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Who are visitors?

40. $500 Question from Section 4
Many African societies were famous for the cloth they wove. The most famous of these cloths was known as ______.

41. $500 Answer from Section 4
What is Kente?

42. $100 Question from Anything Goes
West African families usually lived in a household that included the mother, father, children, and close relatives. What is this type of family referred to as?

43. $100 Answer from Anything Goes
What is an Extended Family?

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By 800, nearly all trade routes from Northern and Southern Africa passed through where?

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What is Ghana?

46. $300 Question from Anything Goes
To ensure the king of Ghana was richer than his subjects, common people were not allowed to own gold nuggets. What did they have to use instead?

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What is Gold Dust?

48. $400 Question from Anything Goes
To keep order in his presperous kingdom of Mali, _____ took power away from local leaders.

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Who is Sudiata?

50. $500 Question from Anything Goes
Some griot poems are ____ - long poems about kingdoms and heroes.

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What are epics?

52. What helped Great Zimbabwe become an extremely wealthy kingdom?
Final Jeopardy
What helped Great Zimbabwe become an extremely wealthy kingdom?

53. Final Jeopardy Answer
What is trade?