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What does preserving food do?
To keep food from spoiling or rotting.
How did ancient Malians use salt?
To help stay hydrated, in medicines and for preserving food.
Living things (humans) do this to adjust to their environment or change their environment in order to survive?
Adapt
A time period that dates from long ago and longer exists today.
Ancient
A large and powerful area of land or countries under the control of a single government, king, or ruler.
Empire
What does interdependence mean?
When two or more countries or civilizations depend on each other for goods and services they need.
What economic term means focusing on one product or service.
Specialization
The head of government in ancient Mali
King
Items found in nature and used by living things.
Natural resource
What religion did the people from the Malian empire practice?
Islam
Large groups of traders that traveled on camels
Caravans
A place of worship for Muslims
Mosque
What is culture?
The way a group of people live; their language, music, religion, food, clothing, holidays, and beliefs
The people who told the stories of the past in Mali?
Griots
What major river runs through Mali?
Niger River
Something given up when making an economic choice.
Opportunity Cost
True or False: Mali's size and boundaries have changed since it was an empire.
True
What was Timbuktu known for during the Malian empire?
Center for Learning
True or False: Today's Mali is the same exact size as the Mali empire from the past.
False
True or False: Sundiata brought people together. This made the empire smaller.
False
True or False: The kings of Mali controlled trade and the size of the empire grew.
True
What made Mali a rich empire?
Their gold and trading their gold and other goods.
How did the people of the Malian empire adapt to their environment?
Mined for gold - traded gold for salt from the Sahara Desert - farmed and raised animals on the grasslands
Sundiata's grandnephew, helped Mali to grow wealthy and very powerful, created Timbuktu.
Mansa Musa
Mali’s first great leader, whom brought his country great peace.
Sundiata
Define the word - adapt
To change or modify yourself or your environment in order to survive or be successful.
Word for king in ancient Mali
Mansa
What were the buildings in Timbuktu made of?
Mud
What does "contribution" mean.
Providing or adding something which leads to the success and benefit of a group or project.
Describe Mali's climate?
Very hot and dry
what does the word ancient mean?
Belonging to the very distant past and no longer in existence.
What desert is located in Norther Mali
Sahara Desert
What river helped Malians transport their goods?
Niger River
How were the traditions of ancient Mali passed down?
Orally - story telling and singing songs
On what part of Africa is ancient Mali located?
Western Africa (northwestern)
Miners, farmers, and traders were all types of _______ in Ancient Mali.
Human Resources
On which continent is ancient Mali located?
Africa
Mali used human and _________ resources to mine gold.
Capital
How did the people of Mali adapt to their environment?
They traded gold for salt
Name three human resources in Mali.
Farmers, miners, & traders
What did miners find in West Africa?
Gold
List the major geographical features of Mali.
Niger river, grasslands, desert
What did the people of Mali use for preserving food?
Salt
What made Mali a wealthy trading empire?
Its location between 2 natural resources, salt and gold
Where were the salt mines of Mali located?
The Sahara Desert
Name two important natural resources in Mali.
Gold and salt
Who controlled trade in West Africa?
The kings
Who passed on Mali’s traditions and history from one generation to the next?
Storytellers
Who ruled the empire of Mali?
Kings
The library in Timbuktu contained books from these ancient civilizations .
Greece and Rome
What important city in Mali had a famous university?
Timbuktu
Where is Mali located?
Western region of Africa


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