Africa Chapter Walk
Answer on your own paper in complete sentences.
Map p. 113
1. What is the name of the world’s largest desert and in what part of Africa (north, south, east or west) would you find it?
2. In what part of Africa would you find the Niger river?
Environments of Africa 114-115
3. What type of environment is located just south of the Sahara?
4. Which of the 3 environments shown would you want to live in? Why?
Crossing the Sahara 120-121
5. What were some of the items traded across the Sahara?
6. Why was salt a valuable trade item?
Timeline 126-127
7. About how many years passed after Ghana reached its height until Mali is established?
8. What happened in France about the same time Mansa Musa went to Mecca?
Ghana Empire Map p. 131
9. What goods (items) came to Ghana from the north?
Salt and Gold p. 132-133
10. How did Ghana’s rulers get rich?
11. Where did Ghana’s gold come from?
Overgrazing p. 135
12. What happens to the land if there is overgrazing?
Mali Empire Map p. 137
13. About how many miles across was the empire of Mali?
14. On what river are Timbuktu and Gao located?
Picture: Timbuktu p. 139
15. How did traders from the north bring their goods into Timbuktu?
16. What problem could heavy rain cause?
Biography: Mansa Musa p. 141
17. What did Mansa Musa do that made him a major figure in world history?
Oral Traditions p. 148
18. What was the griot’s job?