Chapter 18 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

Which country was a Christian outpost that maintained connections to Jerusalem ?

• Axum
• Benin
• Ghana
• Ethiopia

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

• Marco Polo
• Avicenna
• Ibn Battuta
• Mansa Musa

The _______ was the village storyteller in African kingdoms

• diviner
• shaman
• priest
• griot

Most peoples in the cities of eastern Africa spoke

• Swahili
• Greek
• Bantu
• Arabic

T or F.  All of the members of a lineage group could claim to be descended from a common ancestor.

• True
• Falee

Which was true of most African kingdoms? 

• They were ruled by evil kings
• They were major trading centers
• They refused to trade with other tribes
• They only hunted for their food

The Bantu people of southern and eastern Africa spread techniques for _____________ across Africa.

• gold mining
• iron smelting
• writing
• weaving tapestries

What was the chief trading center of Songhai?

• Gao
• Timbuktu
• Mecca
• Djeene