CH 9, L1 Early Africa

The area marked in yellow represents what type of climate zone?

• Desert
• Mountains
• Rainforest
• Grasslands

The area marked in light green represents what type of climate zone?

• Desert
• Mountains
• Rainforest
• Grasslands

The area marked in dark green represents what type of climate zone?

• Desert
• Mountains
• Rainforest
• Grasslands

The area marked in pinkish red represents what group of people?

• Great Zimbabwe
• Swahili
• Mali
• Songhay

The area outlined in red represents what group of people?

• Great Zimbabwe

• Swahili

• Mali

• Songhai

The area marked in orange represents what group of people?

• Axum

• Nubia

• Kush

• Nubia and/or Kush

_____ was the first of the great trading states to emerge in the area south of the Sahara in West Africa.

• Ghana

• Axum

• Nubia

• Sierra Leone

What river helped the traders in Mali transport their goods?

• Nile River
• Yangtze River
• River Thames
• Niger River

This Muslim leader in Mali started to spread Islam through west Africa:

• Sundiata
• Mansa Musa
• Askia the Great
• Muhammad Ture

Which of the following factors is the main reason that Ghana became a powerful empire in West Africa?

• It had extremely productive agriculture
• It controlled the gold and salt trade in that region
• It traded extensively with European countries
• It was the first African empire to industrialize