West Africa

Why was salt such an important trade good in West Africa?

• West Africans gave salt to their animals.
• West Africans used it to preserve food.
• Salt was used in the animist religious rituals.
• It was used by families as a cleansing agent,

The biggest, hottest desert in the world is the

• Sahara Desert

• Savannah Desert

• Hot Desert

• Dry Desert

Someone who practices the religion of Islam is a

• Muslim

• African

• Sherpa

• Trader

Information from the past that you get from people talking to each other is

• written history

• artifacts

• conversation

• oral tradition

What would make it hard to travel through the Saharan desert?

• wind and sand

• lack of water

• heat

• all of the above

Mansa Musa brought these back from his famous pilgrimage.

• guns
• scholars and architects
• Berbers
• slaves

How did the king of Ghana become wealthy?

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

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

• Mecca

• Medina

• Cairo

• Timbuktu

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

• Mecca

• Rome

• Los Angeles

• Timbuktu

Matrilineal is based on

• a child's family line

• a man's family line

• a woman's family line