West African Kingdoms

In African history, the main purpose of a "griot" was to

• Play instruments and entertain people.

• preserve the history of the people.

• teach math and science

• Perform surgeries and keep people and alive.

Timbuktu and Djenne were centers for Islamic art, literature, and Science.

• True

• False

What West African river aided in the development of West African civilizations?

• Nile River

• Yangtze River

• River Thames

• Niger River

The trade of which two products shaped the early history of North and West Africa?

• ivory and salt
• salt and gold
• silk and gold
• spices and ivory

Although they were located in Africa, the Ghana and Mali Empires both adopted the main religion of Arab Traders, which was:

• Judaism

• Christianty

• Buddhism

• Islam

The savannah is

• dry, hot desert.

• a wet jungle, lots of rain.

• scattered trees and grassland.

• a mountain range.

How did early West Africans record their history?

• orally

• in books

• on tape

• with hyroglyphs

Mansa Musa, even today, is the richest man in the world valued at $400 billion dollars.  But his greatest impact was that he...

• He spread Islam and the Islamic culture throughout West Africa
• He controlled the gold and salt trade
• He made a pilgrimage to Mecca to show off all of his wealth
• He was a model of behavior as a Muslim King who is charitable.

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

• It had extremely productive agriculture, grew lots of crops

• It controlled the gold and salt trade in that region, placed taxes on goods.

• It traded extensively with European countries through the Trans-Saharan Trade

• It was the first African empire to manufacture salt into salt shakers.

Africa is a 

• large country
• small country
• large continent
• small continent