Silk Roads: India and Africa

The Delhi Sultanate had was harshly repressive of religions other than Islam.

• True

• False

This religion contains elements of Hinduism and Islam was founded by Guru Nanak. It emphasized belief in reincarnation, monotheism, and the equality of all humans. What was this religion?

• Sikhism

• Sunni Islam

• Mithraism

• Polytheism

Babur, a descendant of Ghengis Khan, was the founder of the Mughul dynasty in India in 1526.

• True

• False

The West African kingdom of Ghana and Mali became rich on what two commodities?

• silver and sugar

• cinnamon and salt

• salt and gold

• titanium and gold

The Indian palace built to a wife who died young was the

• Pantheon

• Taj Mahal

• Mansa Musa

• Parthenon

Fantastically wealthy king in western Africa who also created a great university.

• Shah Jahan

• Taj Mahal

• Mansa Musa

• Timbuktu

Capital city of Mansa Musa's kingdom of Mali.

• Paris

• Casablanca

• Axum

• Timbuktu

Area of eastern Africa known for both its Jewish and Christian communities.

• Mali

• Ghana

• Ethiopia

• Morocco

Axum was an ancient east African kingdom that traded with the Romans.

• True

• False

Throughout its existence West Africa had no contact with the Mediterranean civilizations to the North.

• True

• False