African Trading Empire Quiz

Most of interior Africa is like a plate turned upside down. It is surrounded by a raised flat are called a__________

• River

• Plain

• Mountain

• Plateau

Africa is home to the worlds largest desert called the ___________Desert

• Sonora

• Sahara

• African

• Arabian

True or False. People in Africa tends to leave where rain falls the most.

• True

• False

Africa also has a broad grassland called a_________.

• Savanna

• Plateau

• Valley

• Mountain

Which is NOT one of the 2 largest rivers in Africa

• East African

• Senegal

• Niger

In____BC West Africans began making iron tools in a place called Nok.

• 250

• 300

• 350

• 400

Around AD 300, the _______people founded a kingdom between the Niger and Senegal Rivers.

• Songhai

• Somalian

• Soninke

• Swahili

The division of jobs and skills in a society is called_______

• Labor Specialization

• Division of Labor

• Natural Resources

The Trans-Saharan trade relied heavily on what two things?

• Salt and Pepper

• Gold and Salt

• Iron and Coal

• Gold and Iron

The Kings from this country grew rich from the gold and salt trade.

• Senegal

• Sudan

• Mali

• Ghana