West Africa

A savannah is

• a dry desert.
• a jungle.
• a flat grassland.
• a mountain range.

These people passed on traditions of their people through songs and stories.

• Griots
• Doctors
• Kings
• Berbers

This is the term from each person in a community doing a specialized job.

• Griots
• labor specialization
• call and resonse
• vegetation zone

Mansa Musa brought these back from his famous pilgrimage.

• guns
• scholars and architects
• Berbers
• slaves

This West African city was a great center of trade that had mosques, universities, and libraries.

• Mecca
• Rome
• Los Angeles
• Timbuktu

How did West Africans record their history.

• orally
• in books
• on tape
• with hyroglyphs

The Songhai was lead by which West African king?

• Askia Muhammad
• Mansa Musa
• Sundiata
• Abd al-Malik

He was a king of the Mali empire and was considered the richest man to ever live.

• Mansa Musa
• Askia Muhammad
• Suni Ali
• Pumba

This was traded for gold and was considered to have the same worth pound for pound.

• millet
• salt
• books
• textiles

In West African villages, what did most people's lives center on?

• farming
• hunting and gathering
• making salt
• gold