West Africa Review Quizizz

The image above illustrates Trans-Saharan trade.  What made this trade so important?

• Required merchants to cross the Saharan Desert
• Trade of gold and salt made Arabs and Africans wealthy
• Without this trade, merchants would have nothing to sell
• Trans Saharan trade began the Slave trade

The city of Timbuktu was important because...

• It was located on the Niger River
• It was the trading center for cloth and copper
• It was located near the Atlantic Ocean
• It was the trading center for gold and salt

The buildings pictured in the Catalan Atlas may represent "mosques".  What is a mosque?

• Christian place of worship
• Muslim place of worship
• Jewish place of worship
• Buddhist place of worship

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.

What is the best definition of Trans Saharan trade?

• Trade through the Saharan Desert
• Trade below the Saharan Desert
• Trade around the Saharan Desert
• Trade above the Saharan Desert

first West African Empire that became wealthy through controlling the salt and gold trade.

• Ghana

• Mali

• Songhai

• Griots

second West African empire that prospered from gold-salt trade. After converting to Islam, became a center of Muslim culture.

• Ghana

• Mali

• Songhai

• Griots

Which would be the best example of cultural diffusion resulting from Ghana's trade relationship with the Middle East?

• Gold and salt were traded for textiles and cloth

• Traders faced difficulties crossing the Sahara desert

• Warfare resulted between Ghanna and the Muslim kingdoms

• Islam quickly became the dominant religion in the empire.

The BEST explanation for how Islam spread in sub-Saharan Africa is

• marriage

• monasticism

• trade

• warfare

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

• store grain and food

• convert people to Christianity

• channel water into areas needing irrigation

• tell stories and keep alive the history of the people