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Warm-up 2/12/19 Read pages 134 and 135 of your text. Answer these questions: What types of plants would you find in the semidesert? What types of plants would you find in the savanna? What religion had a deep impact on West Africa?

Warm-up 2/13/19 Have you ever tried to trade for something you wanted(not with money)? How did it go? How did you determine what was fair in trade? If not, imagine trying to trade for something you want, what do you want and what are you going to trade for it? How are you going to make sure you get what you want?

Warm-up 2/14/19 Name two or more ways that salt is used.

Warm-up 2/15/19 Describe the activity we did in class yesterday. Describe your role in the activity. What did you do? What did your role tell you about West African trade?

Cowrie shells kola nuts

Warm-up 2/19/19 1. If you came from the southern forest, you traded to get what necessary resource? salt, B. kola nuts, C. gold 2. Because of its location, what role did Ghana play in North African trade? A. salt merchant, B. gold miner, C. middleman 3. Arab scholars described Ghana as A. land of gold, B. land of taxes, C. land of kings 4. Which of the following is not a reason for the high price of salt in medieval West Africa? A. it was needed to preserve food, B. it is needed for perspiration, C. it weighed the same as gold

Warm-up 2/20/19 Why do you think gold was so important to West Africa?

Warm-up 2/21/19 Review pages 32-34 of your Binder. Find a quote that shows how trans-Saharan trade lead to Ghana’s wealth and success. Write the quote on your warm-up

Warm-up 2/22/19 Yesterday you wrote down a quote from pages 32-34 of your Binder. Today: Explain why that quote shows how trans-Saharan trade led to Ghana’s wealth and success.