In case you missed the link with the ESS answers for this term (here it is again)
Also, because some students were unable to open the file, I thought I would repost the answers, this time in the blog post itself, instead of being a separate file.
Here they are:
GRADE 8 TERM 3
ESS
–Chapter 11
Unit
6, chapter 11
Ghana
– Questions given in class and written on the board.
Page
367
1. Where
is Ghana located?
In West Africa, between Senegal and
the upper Niger rivers
2. What
does Ghana mean?
“War Chief”
3. When
did Ghana’s rise to power begin?
AD 700
4. How
many square km had it conquered by AD 1000?
258 980 km2
5. What
religion did the scholar Al-Zuhri follow?
Islam
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368
6. What
do the following words mean?
a. Ignorant
– lacking knowledge/ training. Being
uninformed.
b. Ebony
– a hard, dark wood.
7. Who
did the Ghanaians attack, according to al-Zuhiri?
People
who did not know how to use iron and only fought with clubs.
(This means that their weapons were inferior to those of the Ghanaians, making
them easy to conquer)
8. Why
were the Ghanaians’ weapons superior?
Theirs
were made of iron, so they were stronger and dealt more damage.
9. What
was the Ghanaians’ primary weapon?
Iron
spear
10. What
are “tariffs”?
taxes
11. Draw
a diagram to illustrate how this tax system worked:
12. Who
was the “master of the gold”?
The
king of Ghana
13. Why
was he called this?
He
CONTROLLED countries that were rich in
gold and held a monopoly over trade.
14. What
does monopoly mean?
Complete
control.
15. How
did the king keep the price of gold high?
He
made sure that it remained difficult to get, meaning it remained scarce and therefore remained valuable.
16. What
was Ghana’s capital city called?
Kumbi-Saleh
17. What
is it called today?
Accra
18. What
did Northern African merchants bring to this city?
Pure salt
19. Where
were the mines of this commodity (salt) located?
In the
Sahara
20. Name
the two PRIMARY uses of salt:
a.
flavouring
food and
b.
preserving
food
21. Name
four other goods traded by the North Africans:
a.
Gold
b.
Ivory
c.
Cotton
goods (cloths and fabric)
d.
Animal
skins
22. What
was salt worth?
Its
equal weight in gold. 1 pound of salt = 1 pound of gold
23. Why
was salt so valuable?
It
was very scarce.
ESS
–Chapter 11
ESS
worksheet: unit 6, chapter 11
Lesson
3
Page
366
West African
Beginnings
1.
What
does it mean to say the Soninkes were resourceful? They used, or took advantage if
what they had: an ideal (good) location for trade.
2.
Complete
the following chart:
3.
According
to the chart, who ended up with the gold, and who ended up with the salt? The
Muslim traders had gold and the Wangaras tribe had salt.
4.
REVIEW
QUESTION: How did the Soninkes trade salt and gold? What was the result? The
Soninkes served as go-betweens in the trade of gold for salt. This traed cycle
made the Soninkes very powerful and rich.
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The Map
5.
What
kinds of climate do the following areas have?
a. West Africa – tropical
and dry
b.
Central
Africa - tropical
c.
The
Horn of Africa (in East Africa) - dry
d.
Southern
Africa – mostly dry
6.
What
kind of deposit does North Africa lack?
Gold
7.
What
kind of deposit does North have an abundance (meaning a lot) of?
Iron
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Ghana
8.
The
Ghanaian army contributed to peace and order in the empire. How do you think
the Ghanaian army contributed to the wealth of Ghana?
They protected the trade routes from enemy attacks.
9.
What
would happen to the price of gold if others in the empire were allowed to claim
gold found there? Why?
The price of gold would rise and fall because not only
one person would be controlling the gold trade.
10. REVIEW QUESTION:
How did Ghana’s kings get their wealth?
Through a monopoly on gold and by collecting tariffs
on trade.
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Growth of Islam
in West Africa
11. Name three things that the North African traders did
that changed the lives of West Africans.
They showed them how to use money
They introduced the Arabic language
They brought Islam to West Africa
12. Did Islam become important in West Africa? Explain.
Yes. We know this because the West African rulers and
traders followed Islam, and the great empires that rose in Ghana’s place were
based not only on trade but also on Islam.
Mali and Mansa Musa
13. Where was Mali located?
west Africa
14. Was Mali larger or smaller than Ghana?
Yes. It was nearly twice as big.
15. Who was Mansa Musa? (Was he a teacher, a king, a
philosopher, a trader, a religious leader)
He was a king
16. Vocabulary:
Mansas
– rulers (kings)
17. What three things was Mali known for?
a. wealth,
b. knowledge,
c. study
18. In the image on page 369, why has the mapmaker
pictured Mansa Musa holding out a gold nugget to a trader?
Because Mali’s riches came from the gold-for-salt
trade.
19. REVIEW QUESTION: Why did people come to Mali during
the rule on Mansa Musa?
a. To
trade and
b. to learn (get an education)
Heritage
True or false? If false, correct the sentence
20. Most West African societies had advanced systems of
writing.
False. Most West African societies had no
system of writing.
21. The people known as Grots were important lawyers
False. They were important story tellers
22. The function of
the Grots was to pass laws down from one generation to another
False. The function of the Grots was to pass
stories down from one generation to another
23. The Grots are remembered as Africa’s storytellers.
True
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Songhay
1.
After
Ghana lost its power, Mali became more powerful. What was the next great West African
empire to emerge?
Songhay
2.
Who
defeated the Songhay Empire in 1591?
Morocco
3.
REVIEW
QUESTION: Why did other peoples want the Lands of the Songhay Empire?
a. Wealth
and
b. power
