Early African Societies & Mesoamerica

Which statement is true about West Africa?

• The gold-salt trade increased cultural diffusion

• Many Africans slowly converted to Islam

• Many Africans blended Islam with animism

• All of the above

What did the Spanish want from the Aztecs?

• Gold and riches

• convert them to Christianity

• claim the land for Spain

• all of the above

Why did the Bantu have to move every couple of years?

• The got tired of settling in one place

• The soil lost its fertility due to slash-and-burn farming

• They were driven out by invading tribes

• They needed new groups to intermingle with

The Swahili language is a mixture of Bantu languages and

• Arabic

• Indian

• Persian

• Portuguese

The event had the greatest effect on the growth of Islam in East Africa?

• The arrival of the Portuguese

• The increase in trade and commerce

• The enslavement of Africans

• The chaos and disruption of wars and conquest

How did the rulers of Ghana grow rich?

• By taxing the goods traders carried through their territory

• By conquering neighboring kingdoms and taking their gold

• By building new trade routes to Asia

• By converting the country to Islam and appointing Muslims as advisers

In the Trans-Saharan trade, what two resources were heavily traded?

• Salt and Pepper

• Gold and Diamonds

• Salt and Diamonds

• Gold and Salt

What did Mansa Musa do on his hajj to Mecca to let others see the wealth of Mali?

• His caravans were elaborately decorated

• He gave away so much gold, it offset the price of gold in the Middle East

• Showed them pictures of Timbuktu

What people broke away from the Mali Empire, control of the trade routes, and create the largest Empire in Western Africa?

• The Songhai

• The Yoruba

• The Hausa

What is the main belief of followers of animism?

• There is only one god

• People are organized into family groups

• Souls exists in natural objects.