African Empires - Practice / Review 2023

What city of Mali was considered a center of learning and education?     

• Tripoli 
• Timbuktu
• Gao
•  Accra

What ruler of Mali is famous for his lavish trip to Mecca?     

•  Shaka Zulu
• Ramses II 
• Mansa Musa
•  Hannibal

Select the best response to explain the rise and fall of the empire of Mali.

• RISE: iron tools, capital of Kumbi Saleh, Arabic language; FALL: take over by strict Muslims Almoravids; overgrazed lands

• RISE: took control of trade, expanded territories, built learning; FALL: death of leader, weak successors, too big to manage

• RISE: growth of merchant middle class and wealth; FALL: split of the church and the plague

• RISE: government bureaucracy, Muslim dynasty: FALL: conquered by Morocco

How did Ghana become so wealthy?

• agriculture
• center of trade route
• mining
• conquest

Mansa Musa

• promoted Islam in Mali 
• was defeated by Ghana
• ended the gold and salt trade
• two are correct

Griots were the ___________ of West Africa?

• leaders and bureaucrats
• soldiers and knights
• story tellers and  histories
• teachers and priests

What brought Islam to West Africa?

• Famine and plagues
• Trade
• Agriculture
• Crusades

Mother's side of the family dictates who will become king

• clan
• extended family
• motherly love
• matrilineal

What was the largest empire in West Africa?

• Ghana
• Mali 
• Songhai
• Zimbabwe

What obstacle did every trader who came into Ghana have to endure?

• praying to Allah five times a day
• a tax on the goods being brought in
• delivery of food as they arrived
• a search by an army official