WMS chapter 12

What has sped up the natural process of desertification?

• Changes in the Earth's rotation
• human activitiies
• melting of the polar ice cap
• sun spots

In many African Villages, what did most people's lives center on?

• farming
• hunting and gathering
• making salt
• mining gold

How did the King of Ghana become wealthy?

• by converting to Islam
• by selling salt
• by taxing trade
• by trading camels

Who developed Timbuktu as a center of trade?

• Askia Mohammed
• Mansa Musa
• Sundiata
• Sunni Ali

What people settled between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers and built an empire?

• Malinke
• Mbzana
• Shona
• Songhai

What is the movement of many groups through Africa beginning in 1000 A.D.?

• Bantu Migrations
• Shona Migrations
• Slave Trade
• Ghana Migration

Near which two rivers did the Bantu language originate?

• Nile and Red Rivers
• Nile and Niger Rivers
• Benue and Nile Rivers
• Benue and Niger Rivers

Who were the Berbers?

• Islamic traders from North Africa
• Gold Traders from West Africa
• original inhabitants of Ghana
• upper-class citizens of Ghana

What was one of Sundiata's accomplishments?

• expanding Mali's empire
• making a pilgrimage to Mecca
• building a mosque at Timbuktu
• defeating Songhai invaders

What did Arab traders who settled in East Africa bring with them?

• Swahili language
• religion of Islam
• traditional African Religion
• government officials