Ch 4 West Africa REVIEW

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List the 3 West African kingdoms in chronological order: Ghana, Mali and Songhai

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Ghana, Mali and Songhai

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What large body of water borders Africa to the north?

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Mediterranean Sea

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What physical feature of Africa impeded the movement of people, goods and ideas?

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Sahara Desert

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What physical feature in West Africa encouraged the movement of people, goods and ideas?

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Niger River

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How did West Africa benefit from the trans-Saharan slave trade?

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The trading kingdoms became rich and powerful.

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This was a way of peaceful trading so that the locations of the salt and gold mines would not be discovered.

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silent bartering

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How did Europe and Asia benefit from the trans-Saharan slave trade?

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They got cheap labor.

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West Africa became an important commerce center. Which answer below is not an example of West Africa being a major commerce center: Leaders taxed trade routes., They exported important goods like salt, gold and slaves., They built trade cities like Timbuktu., Islam became the dominant religion.

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Islam became the dominant religion.

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What type of governments existed in West Africa?

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Absolute monarchy

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Trade routes to Asia, Mansa Musa's pilgrimage, and architectures building mosques are reasons for the arrival of what religion to West Africa?

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Islam