Ancient Africa

Which commodity did Ghana and Mali trade for salt?

• Bronze
• Silver
• Gold
• Copper

Mansa Musa built a beautiful capital city with mosques and libraries at

• Alexandria
• Timbuktu
• Damascus
• Baghdad

This language was a mixing of the Bantu language and Arabic

• Swahili
• Hausa
• Berber
• Yoruba

The Islamic traveler that traveled throughout the Muslim world and wrote down his journey.

• Marco Polo
• Ibn Sina
• Ibn Battuta
• Mansa Musa

The _______ was the village storyteller in African kingdoms

• teacher
• journalists
• priests
• griots

What religion did the Arabian merchants bring to Ghana?

• Christianity
• Buddhism
• Islam
• None

Mansa Musa made a pilgrimage to Mecca because he was a devout Muslim?

• True
• False

Where was the Songhai's center of Islamic faith located?

• Madagascar
• Mecca
• Fez
• Timbuktu

Which of these trade items made Ghana, Mali, and Songhai tribes wealthy? 

• Silver and Silk
• Gold and Salt
• Silver and Gold
• Silk and Porcelain

As a result of invasion by Muslim armies during the Middle Ages, most people of North Africa —

• follow Islam as a religion
• trade in spices and wheat
• speak languages based on Swahili
• vote for democratic representatives