Ch 13-14 Test Review

All members of a lineage group claimed descent from whom?

• gods

• a common ancestor

• matrilineal

• patrilineal

In many African societies, the family lineage is based on the mother, which means that African societies were what?

• matrilineal

• patrilineal

• polytheistic

• monotheistic

Ancestors were a key element in African religion because people believed that they did what?

• ancestors were living in another universe

• ancestors punished them

• ancestors suffered

• ancestors were closer to their gods

Early African wood carvers made masks and statues that most often represented what?

• snakes

• women

• gods, spirits, and ancestors

• the emperor

Music and storytelling were used for what purposes?

• used to pass along a community's history

• entertainment

• to prepare for wedding

• to ensure fertility

Since there was no written language, the job of passing historical information down from generation to generation fell to singers and to a special class of storytellers called what?

• women

• men

• griots

• priests

The first great trading state in West Africa was called what?

• Ghana

• Kilwa

• Mogadishu

• Mali

The “fleets of the desert” were used for trade by which group of people

• sailors

• merchants

• Muslims

• Berbers

What city built by Mansa Musa became the intellectual capital of the Muslim world?

• Timbuktu

• Cairo

• Zimbabwe

• Tenochitlan

Islam was first brought to East Africa by which means?

• Jewish traders from Israel

• Muslim traders from Arabia

• European traders

• Indian traders