African Empires - Process

Step #1 - Basic Information

Everyone in your group should start here. All of the links below contain information about each of the African Empires and their geographic factors, history, economic, and social characteristics. Play the video for your assigned African Empire below. You should have one iPad/Laptop play the video for everyone in your group. You need to take notes from the video.

When taking notes, look for the Who, What, Where, When, and Why

* Who - Who were the important people?
* What - What did they do or What Happened?
* Where - Where did this Empire exist?
* When - When did this Empire exist?
* Why - Why was this Empire important and Why did it end?

Texts:

• The West African Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai

Video:

• The Ghana Empire (8:35)
• The Kingdom of Mali (7:33)
• The Songhai Empire (7:16)

Worksheet

• [http://www.classroomexplorations.org

/wiki/images/3/3a/Notetakingworksheet.pdf Assignment Notetaking Worksheet]