Ch.7 - Early African Civilizations

The economies of the western African civilizations of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai relied on

• Textile production

• Trans-Saharan trade routes

• Coastal trade

• Farming sugarcane and pineapple

Tracing family descent through mothers rather than fathers side

• clan

• patriarchal

• lineage group

• matrilineal

What was the largest empire in West Africa?

• Ghana
• Mali 
• Songhai
• Zimbabwe

The trade of ______ helped the West African empires grow wealthy.

• gold and silver
• gold and salt
• salt and bronze
• gold and iron

The migrations of which people helped spread culture across Africa south of the Equator?

• Bantu

• Moroccans

• Europeans

• Swahili

African and Arabic culture & languages blended to form ____.

• Islamic

• Swahili

• Bantu

• Songhai

Who was the leader Mali that made a pilgrimage to Mecca?

• Sunni Ali

• Mansa Musa

• Muhammad Ture

• Sundiata Keita

Climate zone made up of tropical grasslands with small trees and shrubs

• savanna

• plateau

• griot

• rainforest

This is the largest desert in the world

• Kalahari

• Gobi

• Mojave

• Sahara

What religion spread from Arabia into Africa through Berber trade?

• Islam

• Hinduism

• Buddhism

• Christianity