Africa

What is the name of the largest hot desert in the world?

• The Australian Desert

• The Arabian Desert

• The Gobi Desert

• The Saraha

What did the Nok develop that gave them an advantage in farming and weapons?

• gold

• silver

• iron

What does trans-Saharan trade mean?

• trade across the Atlantic Ocean

• trade across the Sahara Desert

Why was salt important to the people of West Africa?

• Salt was important in preserving meat and for good health.

• Salt was not important for people of West Africa.

Islam started growing in West Africa.

• True

• False

What leader of Mali made a pilgrimage to Mecca and gave away large amounts of gold?

• Ibn Battuta

• Sundiata Keita

• Mansa Musa

Put the West African empires in chronological order.

• Songhai, Mali, Ghana

• Mali, Songhai, Ghana

• Ghana, Mali, Sonnghai

The professional storytellers and oral historians of West Africa are called...

• griots.

• Mansas.

• Imams.

The type of drumming that combines two or more different rhythms at the same time is called...

• monorhythmic drumming

• polyrhythmic drumming

• trans-rhythmic drumming