Review for Africa Test

A savannah is

• a dry desert.

• a jungle.

• a flat grassland.

• a mountain range.

This West African city was a great center of trade that had mosques, universities, and libraries.

• Mecca

• Rome

• Los Angeles

• Timbuktu

He was a king of the Mali empire and was considered the richest man to ever live.

• Mansa Musa

• Askia Muhammad

• Suni Ali

• Pumba

This was traded for gold and was considered to have the same worth pound for pound.

• millet

• salt

• books

• textiles

This was a way of peaceful trading so that the locations of the salt and gold mines would not be discovered.

• silent economy

• silent majority

• silent night

• silent trade

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

Which of the following is West Africa's longest and most important river?

• Senegal River
• Nile River
• Niger River
• Black Volta River

These are the two valuable trade goods that made West Africa rich

• gold and salt

• silk and jade

• spices and tea

• silk and gold

Mansa Musa became famous during the Hajj he took to...

• Mecca

• Medina

• Cairo

• Timbuktu

Mansa Musa took a ____________ to Mecca.

• migration

• surplus

• pilgrimage

• minerals