Mali-Economics & Contributions

Storytellers who passed on stories and traditions from one generation to the next.

• kings
• griots
• traders
• miners

Ancient Mali was ruled by powerful ______.

• griots
• miners
• kings
• soldiers

____ controlled trade in West Africa.

• kings
• griots
• Timbuktu
• soldiers

_____ was an important city with a university containing books from ancient civilizations.

• Niger River
• Timbuktu
• Sahara Desert
• Africa

The people of Mali were traders, farmers, and _____.

• pottery makers
• shipbuilders
• roadbuilders
• miners

The people in Mali traded gold for this natural resource.

• money
• salt
• wood
• silver

Mali was a very wealthy empire because kings taxed the people who traded in Mali. True or false?

• True
• False