Name_______________________________Date__________________#__________
Social Studies, Chapter 3, Lesson 2 Outline
II. Africa’s Trading Empires
A. Ghana, Kingdom of Gold
1. Caravans crossed the____________________.
2. A caravan is a group of ____________________
traveling____________________.
3. Caravans on____________________traveled the Sahara, bringing goods to
and from____________________ ____________________.
4. The earliest kingdom named____________________was called
“____________________________________________________” because
its land was rich in the precious____________________.
5. However, Ghana lacked an important resource, ____________________.
6. Trade routes developed bringing salt into____________________.
7. ____________________traders from____________________
____________________brought salt from the____________________ to the
cities on the southern edge of the desert, like ____________________.
8. Just as____________________became worth its weight in gold, so
did____________________.
9. Arab traders also brought their religion, ____________________, with them
to____________________ ____________________.
10. Followers of Islam are known as____________________. The kings of
Ghana hired Muslims as____________________, to help them rule.
11. Ghana’s rulers grew rich from trade. They charged taxes on all
____________________and____________________.
B. Mali and Songhai
1. The kingdom of____________________ controlled more land than Ghana. It
was wealthy because of____________________.
2. Caravans continued their trade of____________________and
____________________.
3. European ships brought____________________, ____________________,
and other goods to ____________________ ____________________ports.
4. Mali traded____________________, ____________________
____________________, and ____________________
____________________for such goods.
5. Mali reached its peak during the rule of____________________
____________________. He was known for his immense wealth. He was
a____________________who in 1324 went on a ____________________
to____________________, a city in the Arabian peninsula that is holy to
Muslims.
6. A pilgrimage is a____________________taken for ____________________
reasons.
7. On Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage came thousands of ____________________.
Among them were 500 ____________________carrying a bar of gold
weighing four pounds. The gold was used along the way
to____________________for traveling____________________.
8. The king’s journey____________________trade ties between Mali and
Muslim nations.
9. He brought back many Muslim____________________and
____________________who contributed to life in Mali. Many of them settled
in____________________, a center of trade and now a center
of____________________.
10.
Mansa Musa ordered a large building for study and worship,
the____________________ ____________________, to be built.
11.
Soon after Mansa Musa’s rule, another trading kingdom rose in West
African called____________________. At its peak in the early 1500s,
Songhai controlled more____________________than both Ghana and Mali.
C. Connecting Different Parts of the World
1. Zheng He’s journeys showed that the Chinese were learning routes
to____________________and____________________.
2. Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage showed how people from West Africa and the
Arabian peninsula traveled between their two____________________.
3. The people of____________________were learning about the people and
geography of____________________and____________________.
4. European map makers built on the____________________of many travelers
and____________________around the world. One tool that helped them
was developed by Arabs. It was the____________________, an instrument
that helped sailors use the____________________and
____________________to find their location in____________________.
5. With the astrolabe and other new tools and ideas, different parts of the
____________________were becoming more closely
____________________.