West African Kingdoms

The image above illustrates Trans-Saharan trade.  What made this trade so important?

• Required merchants to cross the Saharan Desert
• Trade of gold and salt made Arabs and Africans wealthy
• Without this trade, merchants would have nothing to sell
• Trans Saharan trade began the Slave trade

What famous king is illustrated on the Catalan Atlas of 1375?

• Ibn Battuta
• Sunni Ali
• Mansa Musa
• Sundiata

The city of Timbuktu was important because...

• It was located on the Niger River
• It was the trading center for cloth and copper
• It was located near the Atlantic Ocean
• It was the trading center for gold and salt

Mansa Musa, even today, is the richest man in the world valued at $400 billion dollars.  But his greatest impact was that he...

• He spread Islam and the Islamic culture throughout West Africa
• He controlled the gold and salt trade
• He made a pilgrimage to Mecca to show off all of his wealth
• He was a model of behavior as a Muslim King who is charitable.

The greatest city in West Africa during the medieval era was...

• Ghana
• Niani
• Jenne
• Timbuktu

As Mansa Musa conducted his pilgrimage across the Sahara Desert to Cairo and then Mecca, he showed he was a good Muslim by

• Making the pilgrimage (hajj)
• Being charitable
• Visiting the rulers of each city
• Sharing his story

Which of the following is the CORRECT order of the West African Kingdoms?

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

Salt was worth its weight in gold because it is a scarce resource.

• True
• False

All three West African Empires fell from...

• Disease
• Invasion/Rebellion
• Natural Disaster
• Hand of God

The West African kingdom that became wealthy through taxing passersby was 

• Ghana
• Mali
• Songhai
• Benin