gold salt trade

What city was a major trade center in Africa?

• Tripoli

• Alexandria

• Timbuktu

• Mesopotamia

How did Ghana grow into a rich empire?

• Salt and Silver

• Gold and Salt

• Salt and Diamonds

• Gold and Sand

The camel was the animal that allowed traders to cross the...

• Kalahari Desert

• Arabian Desert

• Mojave Desert

• Sahara Desert

The religion of the traders in Africa was...

• Christianity

• Judaism

• Islam

• Hinduism

Not only was salt valuable, it was also a...

• protein

• preservative

• carbohydrate

• fat

The religious building for Muslims is called a...

• mosques

• synagogue

• cathedral

• temole

What helped trade grow in the Sahara? 

• Camels 
• Trucks

Mali gained much of its wealth from

• taxes on the people living there
• Selling gold 
• taxes from trade
• Selling salt

Islam spread to West Africa because of...

• caliphs who demanded that West Africa be conquered.

• merchants who traveled across the desert.

• military conquest by Arab armies.

• sailors who accidentally sailed up the Senegal River.

Trans-Saharan trade in early West Africa MAINLY involved the exchange of _________ for gold.

• Iron
• Salt
• Slaves
• Ivory