World History
- Sunni Ali - Founder Of West African Songhai Dynasty
Sunni Ali Sunni Ali was an African ruler who founded the Songhai Empire in the 15th century. He was the hereditary ruler of the kingdom of Songhai, which existed from the 11th century and was centered in the city of Gao on the Niger River in the southeastern...
- History Of Mali
History of Mali. This is a brief history of the African nation of Mali. Much of essay deals with more recent political activity. The Encyclopædia Britannica notes, "Officially Republic of Mali, French République du Mali, landlocked state in central...
- Ethiopia's Salt Trade
The African salt trade has gone on for centuries and its trade for gold formed the basis of wealth for some of Africa's most famous kingdoms: Mali, Ghana, and Songhai. The Washington Post has an excellent annotated photo collection of...
- Top Hits For April
Despite the fact that most teachers had spring break in April, we still had 47,000 pageviews for the US, World and Government blogs during the month of April. The top hit posts were:Songhai, Ghana and Mali informationUsing Games To LearnAn Example...
- Exploring Africa
This is an interesting site from Michigan State University with different modules of study and activities about Africa. For example, I'm teaching the West African kingdoms of Ghana, Mali and Songhai and Module 7A has an interesting map and graphic...
World History
Ghana, Songhai, Mali
Tomorrow I will be at a chairs' meeting and my students will be doing a fairly traditional e-learning assignment from viewing this PowerPoint on Ghana, Mali and Songhai and then making sure they understand the connections between the three eastern African areas. Here is a webpage where I found out much of the information in addition to our e-book. What I like about the webpage is that it also has several graphic organizers that connect the three entities together. (By the way, we are not using the PowerPoint for Mesoamerica as the kids had a chart to work on instead).
- Sunni Ali - Founder Of West African Songhai Dynasty
Sunni Ali Sunni Ali was an African ruler who founded the Songhai Empire in the 15th century. He was the hereditary ruler of the kingdom of Songhai, which existed from the 11th century and was centered in the city of Gao on the Niger River in the southeastern...
- History Of Mali
History of Mali. This is a brief history of the African nation of Mali. Much of essay deals with more recent political activity. The Encyclopædia Britannica notes, "Officially Republic of Mali, French République du Mali, landlocked state in central...
- Ethiopia's Salt Trade
The African salt trade has gone on for centuries and its trade for gold formed the basis of wealth for some of Africa's most famous kingdoms: Mali, Ghana, and Songhai. The Washington Post has an excellent annotated photo collection of...
- Top Hits For April
Despite the fact that most teachers had spring break in April, we still had 47,000 pageviews for the US, World and Government blogs during the month of April. The top hit posts were:Songhai, Ghana and Mali informationUsing Games To LearnAn Example...
- Exploring Africa
This is an interesting site from Michigan State University with different modules of study and activities about Africa. For example, I'm teaching the West African kingdoms of Ghana, Mali and Songhai and Module 7A has an interesting map and graphic...