African Kingdoms Unit Practice Quiz

Wangarans kept the location of gold a secret because

• They didn't want Mansa Musa to know about it.

• They feared traders would charge too much for it.

• They didn't want to barter with traders from North Africa.

• They wanted to keep trading gold and the money they made from it to themselves.

What happened to the price of gold because of Mansa Musa's distribution of gold, is an example of the economic concept of:

• gold standard

• profit motive

• investment

• supply and demand

Which European nation established the slave trade

• Spain

• Portugal

• Ireland

• England

Trade impacted Africa in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

• spread of rights for women

• spread of slave trade

• spread of Islam

• spread of ideas and technology

Salt was used for all of the following EXCEPT:

• to replenish salts that West Africans lost during perspiration

• food preservation

• make salt water for camels

• flavor foods

Besides marrying a free person and buying their freedom, which of the following was a way that a slave could legally gain their freedom?

• By killing their master

• By running away

• By performing an act of bravery for their master

• By having children

Ibn Battuta was

• from Mali and mined salt

• was a Muslim who journaled about his travels across the Sahara

• was from the Sahara and mined gold

• was an African who journaled about his experience as a slave

Who was the great warrior king, known as the "Lion King" and ruled Mali from 1230 to 1255 CE?

• Mansa Musa

• Timbuktu

• Sunni Ali

• Sudiata Keita

How did Arab mercants transport goods across the Sahara?

• horses and donkeys

• boat

• caravans of camels

• taxis

Mansa Musa was the great leader of which African Empire?

• Ghana

• Songhai

• Axum

• Mali