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

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

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

• millet
• salt
• books
• textiles

Who developed Timbuktu as a center for trade? He was also known as the Lion King.

• Sundiata
• Mansa Musa
• Askia Muhammad
• Sunni Ali

How did the king of Ghana become wealthy?

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

Griots were the ___________ of West Africa?

• leaders
• soldiers 
• story tellers
• children

What were the 3 largest West African Empires?

• Songhai, Mali, and Nigeria
• Mali, Songhai, and Ghana
• Ghana, Songhai, and Bachwezi
• Aksum, Ghana, Mali

What is the correct order of the rise and fall of the 3 great west African empires? The country on the left is the first to rise and the country on the right is the last to rise. 

• Ghana, Songhai, and Mali
• Songhai, Ghana, and Mali
• Mali, Ghana, and Songhai
• Ghana, Mali, and Songhai