Africa Unit Review

Front

What animal does this describe?
a. ability to hold large amounts of water
b. double row of eye lashes
c. hairy ear openings
Options: donkey, horse, elephant, camel

Back

camel

Front

money paid by one country to another for protection (or as a tax)

Back

tribute

Front

What was the main factor that led to an increase in trans-Saharan trade?

Back

introduction of camels

Front

What natural resource did North Africans trade to get by crossing the Sahara Desert?

Back

gold

Front

If you came from the southern forests of Wangara, you traded TO GET what necessary resource?

Back

salt

Front

Why did the Wangarans insist on trading silently?

Back

to keep their gold mines' location secret

Front

How did Ghana make most of its wealth on trade?

Back

taxing traders

Front

How did the Niger River encourage trade?

Back

transportation route

Front

What resulted from the hajj of Mansa Musa?

Back

People in other lands learned Mali was rich and important.

Front

In which language were most of the earliest books written in West Africa?

Back

Arabic