★ Inquiry DBQ Series · #4
Mansa Musa's Mali DBQ
Mansa Musa's Mali: what made the empire so rich and powerful?
What made Mali so rich and powerful? Students weigh Al-Umari, Ibn Battuta, the Catalan Atlas, and trade maps to explain the wealth behind Mansa Musa's famous 1324 pilgrimage.
Grade 7World Civilizations 600–1600Google Slides3 class periods
License: one teacher and their own students.
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What's included
- Teacher presentation (14 slides) with speaker notes
- Full DBQ packet (33 pages): hook, background essay, documents with analysis questions, sourcing organizer, bucketing and outline, writing task, 4-point rubric, teacher guide with answer key and sample CER response
- Scaffolded version (12 pages): shorter excerpts, vocabulary support and sentence starters, with its own answer key
The documents
- Al-Umari on Musa in Cairo
- Ibn Battuta on Mali
- The Catalan Atlas (1375)
- Map of trans-Saharan trade
- The Djinguereber Mosque
- The gold-salt exchange
Good to know
- Class time
- 3 periods of 45–50 minutes
- Pages
- 59 total
- Format
- Editable Google Slides
- Answer key
- Included
Standards: KAS Grade 7: 7.E.ST.4, 7.E.MI.2, 7.H.CO.1, 7.I.Q, 7.I.UE, 7.I.CC