Africa

What physical feature of Africa impeded the movement of people, goods and ideas?

• Atlantic Ocean
• Mediterranean Sea
• Red Sea
• Sahara Desert

List the four major exports of West Africa.

• Slaves, salt, gold and silk
• Gold, slaves, diamonds and silk
• Gold, ivory, salt and slaves
• Ivory, gold, slaves and silk

How did West Africa benefit from the trans-Saharan slave trade?

• Europe became rich and powerful.
• The trading kingdoms became rich and powerful.
• West Africa was destroyed by this slave trade.
• none of the above

How did Europe and Asia benefit from the trans-Saharan slave trade?

• They got rich off of selling slaves.
• They got cheap labor.
• They got Islamic architects.
• none of the above

West Africa became an important commerce center. Which answer below is not an example of West Africa being a major commerce center.

• Leaders taxed trade routes.
• They exported important goods like salt, gold and slaves.
• They built trade cities like Timbuktu.
• Islam became the dominant religion.

What type of governments existed in West Africa?

• Direct democracy
• Constitutional monarchy
• Absolute monarchy
• Republic

Trade routes to Asia, Mansa Musa's pilgrimage, and architectures building mosques are reasons for the arrival of what religion to West Africa.

• Christianity
• Catholicism
• Protestantism
• Islam

West Africa built universities to educate the people so they could read the Quran. What language did they have to learn? 

• Hebrew
• Greek
• Arabic
• Latin

What West African trade good was used to preserve meat prior to refrigeration?

• Ivory
• Salt
• Gold
• Ice

This West African city was a great center of trade that had mosques, universities, and libraries.

• Mecca
• Rome
• Los Angeles
• Timbuktu