African Trading Empires

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The most important West African city, for trade and education, was

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Timbuktu

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Which two products were the most valuable trade items for the kingdoms of West Africa? Options: gold and grain, cotton and kola nuts, gold and salt, salt and cattle

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gold and salt

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Mansa Musa was leader of which West African trading empire? (Options: Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Axum)

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Mali

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What visitor to Africa's writings contributed to our understanding of Ancient West Africa?

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Ibn Battutah

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What geographic feature in northern Africa limited Western African civilizations contact with Europe and Asia?

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Sahara Desert

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Which of the following was not an empire in West Africa? Songhai, Mali, Ghana, Koumbi Saleh

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Koumbi Saleh

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The traditional religion of Animism believes...

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Objects in nature have souls or spirits

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The Sahara is

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the world's largest desert

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What was the main reason camels were used as the dominant source of transportation across northern Africa?

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They were very good at traveling across the Sahara Desert.

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The city of Timbuktu was known as

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The center of learning and trade.