Ch.4 Africa Review

How did the king of Ghana make money?

• by taxing goods that entered and left the kingdom

• by requiring farmers to give him most of their crops

• by selling land to wealthy merchants

• by forcing all of the Ghana people to work in his salt mines

Who brought Islam to the kingdom of Ghana?

• Mansa Musa

• Arab traders

• griots

• Sundiata Keita

What did Sundiata Keita do?

• made Islam the official religion of Mali

• founded the Mali Empire

• started the gold trade in West Africa

• made a pilgrimage to Mecca

What was Mansa Musa well known for?

• his support of the arts, learning, and Islam

• being the first leader of Mali

• overthrowing the kingdom of Ghana

• helping his people develop better farming methods

Which of the following is the main reason that early African civilizations had griots?

• They enjoyed music that used traditional instruments.

• They preferred hearing stories to reading them in print.

• They did not have a writing system.

• They needed griots to keep financial records.

How did the practices of the Nok people lead to the decline of their culture?

• They damaged the ecosystem and made the land infertile.

• They angered their gods, so their gods punished them.

• They dug up the land to mine for gold.

• They traded too much of their gold for African tools.

How did Mansa Musa become fabulously wealthy?

• He owned all of Mali's gold.

• He had subject kings pay tribute to him.

• He had merchants pay him taxes.

• All of these reasons.

What is a caravan?

• a group of merchants and camels crossing the desert

• a clan of people living in the mountains

• a North African family of nomads

• a port city that engages in trading

How could the climate of the Sahara best be described?

• dry with hot summers and cold winters

• humid with hot summers and cold winters

• dry with hot summers and warm winters

• humid with hot summers and warm winters

The Nok people were known for all the following except?

• Settling in an area which is present day Nigeria today

• The first in West Africa to make iron tools

• Controlling the gold and salt trade

• creating sculptures made out of terra-cotta