Medieval Africa

Which Medieval African king helped create new relationships between West Africa, Asia, Europe and other African nations?

• King Nzinga

• Mansa Musa

• Sundiata Keita

• Nelson Mandela

Which geographical feature was a barrier to African trade?

• Mount Kilimanjaro

• Amazon River

• Hadrian's Wall

• Sahara desert

Pick the two trade items that helped West Africa grow.

• paper

• gold

• silk

• salt

Which conclusion is supported by information provided by the map above?

• traders depended mainly on rivers as avenues of transportation

• more products were carried on the ocean than across the land

• silk was the principal product traded

• traders often depended on both sea and land routes

How did the empire of Ghana become rich?

• trade routes
• taxing traders
• mining gold 
• trading salt

What city in Africa was the leading center of Islam?

• Mohenjo-Daro

• Gao

• Kumbi-Saleh

• Timbuktu

Ghana grew very rich after they took over the ___________ trade routes.

• trans-saharan
• silk road
• sub-saharan
• european

Which of the following is NOT a kingdom of W. Africa?

• Songhai

• Cairo

• Mali

• Ghana

The MOST LIKELY reason that Mansa Musa is featured so prominently on the Catalan Atlas below is...

• To provide a reference point for the kingdom of Mali

• To show that Mansa Musa is the region’s monarch

• To enhance the decorative elements of the map

• To emphasize the wealth, power, and importance of Mansa Musa

The commodities gold and salt were important to many regions of West Africa because they

• helped create great wealth and vast trade networks that spread new ideas

• were both vital to health and very rare in the region, which made them valuable

• were abundant in the region, allowing it to develop self-sufficiently and become wealthy

• increased trade, bringing in great wealth and spreading new ideas such as Christianity, which became the official religion