West Africa

List the 3 West African kingdoms in chronological order.

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

What physical feature in West Africa encouraged the movement of people, goods and ideas?

• Atlantic Ocean
• Mediterranean Sea
• Niger River
• Sahara Desert

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

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.

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

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

• Ivory
• Salt
• Gold
• Ice

Why was salt such an important trade good in West Africa?

• West Africans gave salt to their animals.
• West Africans used it to preserve food.
• Salt was used in the animist religious rituals.
• It was used by families as a cleansing agent,

Timbuktu was a center of

• history

• military outpost

• learning

• agriculture

Who is known for spreading Islam into Mali?

• Muhammad
• Jesus
• Mansa Musa
• Sundiata Kieta

The most important West African city, for trade and education, was

• Timbuktu
• Cairo
• Gao
• Rome