Chapter 15 quiz

Families are organized into groups. Members believe that they are descendants of a common ancestor.

• Swahili

• Hausa

• Benin

• Lineage

Societies that did not have a centralized system of power.

• Ghana

• Stateless society

• Benin

• Yoruba

Societies that trace their ancestor through their fathers.

• Patrilineal

• Ghana

• Ibn Battuta

• Benin

Society that traces lineage through their mothers.

• Maghrib

• Patrilineal

• Matrilineal

• Mali

A kingdom in which its rulers were growing rich by taxing the goods that traders carried through their territory.

• Ghana

• Hausa

• Yoruba

• Benin

A country whose wealth was built on gold.

• Great Zimbabwe

• Mansa Musa

• Mali

An African Muslim ruler who built mosques, attended public school and supported the preaching of Muslim holy men. This ruler was the most famous.

• Hausa

• Mansa Musa

This territory controlled all important trade routes.

• Hausa

• Yoruba

• Songhai

Mansa Musa's successor who traveled for 27 years visiting most of the countries in the Islamic world.

• Benin

• Ibn Battuta

Country of Western Africa

• Benin

• Swahili