West Africa and Trans Sahara Trade

Ghana and Mali, controlled trade of which TWO items?

• Gold and fish
• Gold and salt
• Gold and timber
• Gold and bronze

The main source of wealth for Ghana was? 

• Iron and coal
• Gold and silver
• Gold 
• Sugar and rum

What could be made from using iron?

• livestock
• tools and weapons
• clothing
• computers

How did Ghana become so wealthy?

• big business
• center of trade route
• colonies
• television

Salt is needed because...

• It makes food taste better
• It dries and preserves food
• Livestock and humans need it to stay alive
• All of the above

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

• Griots
• Doctors
• Kings
• Berbers

A savannah is

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

How did West Africans record their history.

• orally
• in books
• on tape
• with hyroglyphs

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

• Mansa Musa
• Askia Muhammad
• Suni Ali
• Pumba

How did West Africans preserve their history before writing was introduced?

• Booksellers made marks with sharp sticks on wet clay

• Griots memorized the stories and passed them down.

• Painters made a long series of paintings like a comic strip

• Foreign visitors kept the only record of events in the region