1.5 Developments of Africa 1200-1450

What is a griot?

• Storyteller preserving African history

• Muslim temple found in East Africa

• Coin used as currency in Mali empire

• Ship used by Indian Ocean merchants

Mansa Musa is most famous for..?

• converting to Christianity
• making a pilgrimage to Mecca
• ruling Songhai
• not being a good leader

What were the major items traded along the Trans Sahara Trade route

• gold, slaves and porcelain

• silk, porcelain, paper and gunpowder

• gold, slaves and spices

• gold, salt, slaves and ivory

Why were camels used as pack animals along the Silk Road?

• They could carry heavy loads

• They did not require much water

• Both

Name the two Muslim West African empires that benefited from Islamic trade

• Ghana and Mali

• Ghana and Egypt

• Malaysia and Indonesia

• Central China and Persia

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

• Mecca

• Rome

• Los Angeles

• Timbuktu

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

• millet

• salt

• books

• textiles

How did the king of Ghana become wealthy?

• by selling salt
• by converting to Islam
• by taxing trade
• by trading camels

What helped spread Tran-Sahara trade in the 1200 and 1300’s?

• The decline of Indian Ocean trade caused an increase in Tran-Sahara trade

• An increase in the south Africa trade routes from Zimbabwe to Ethiopia

• The completion of the Mediterranean subterranean passage all the way to Samarkand

• The development of as many as fifteen different forms of camel saddles

Where would you find this image

• Kush

• Zimbabwe

• Axum

• Ghana