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Teaching students to think critically: the West African gold & salt trade- which commodity was a more profitable?

As the Bantus in Africa increased trade with Arabs traders from the Middle East, Arab language, culture and religion began to permeate throughout Central and Southern Africa.  As a result, many Africans converted to Islam and picked up Arabic (or at least Swahili- a mixture of Bantu and Arabic).  This power point and cloze notes explains how trade and commerce made such cultural diffusion…

Check out these resources on Africa's Vegetation zones #geography #7thgradesocialscience

California Content Standard: 7.4-1: Study the Niger River & the relationship of the vegetation zones of forest, savannah, and desert to trade in gold, salt, food, and slaves; and the growth of the Ghana and Mali empires.

These resources include the following resources:

1. power point and cloze notes on the 4 major vegetation zones of Africa

2. word sort activity on the climate regions of Africa

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