Africa Unit Review

What animal does this describe?
a. ability to hold large amounts of water
b. double row of eye lashes
c. hairy ear openings

• donkey
• horse
• elephant
• camel

Definition:

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

• tribute

• Trans-Saharan

• tolerance

________ was the main factor that led to an increase in trans-Saharan trade.

• growth of cities
• discovery of salt
• introduction of camels
• introduction of Christianity

North Africans crossed the dangerous Sahara Desert and traded TO GET what natural resource?

• gold
• salt

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

• gold
• salt

Why did the Wangarans insist on trading silently?

• to keep their gold mines' location secret

• to have power over those with whom they traded

• because they disliked other traders

Ghana made most of its wealth on trade by 

• buying luxury goods
• mining gold
• buying camels
• taxing traders

How did the Niger River encourage trade?

• source of food
• transportation route
• annual floods provided rich soil
• provided water for baking

Which of these resulted from the hajj of Mansa Musa?

• Egypt began paying tribute to the kingdom of Mali

• people in other lands learned Mali was rich and important

• armies from West Africa raided as far north as Spain

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

• Latin

• Mande

• Arabic