5.5 Great Kingdoms of Africa, period B

Read pages 1-5 in your Africa reader

Create a Google Doc and title it appropriately for your homework.

1. Upon what sources are we dependent for information about African kingdoms in period B?

2. What is unique about the capitols of these empires? Why do you think this was the case?

3. What did these kingdoms trade that led to the accumulation of such great wealth and power?

Ghana

5. What do you think was the secret to the kingdom of Ghana’s success?

Mali

6. Who was Sundiata Keita and what is his enduring significance?

7. Be sure to view the image of Mansa Musa from a medieval Spanish map; why was his hajj significant?

Songhai

8. What do you think was most significant about the Songhai empire?