Ancient Africa Test Review, L.2-3

Ghana and Mali had strong central governments

• True

• False

Only the king and his family could wear clothing that was sewn in Mali

• True

• False

Most African societies believed in many gods

• True

• False

Muhammad Ture kept the peace in Songhai with a navy and soldiers on horseback

• True

• False

In Ghana, power was transferred to the king's son

• True

• False

Matrilineal is when getting married but tracing family descent through the husband's family

• True

• False

Songhai leader who built the largest empire in medieval West Africa

• Clan

• Makkah

• Askia Muhammad

• Swahili

a group of people believed by many to be able to tell the future

• clan

• diviners

• Makkah

• Mali

A language that means "people of the coast"

• Swahili

• oral history

• Nzinga

• extended families

a group of related people descended from the same ancestor

• Makkah

• Yoruba

• clan

• oral history