West Africa - Wilson

The most important river in West Africa. It flows for 2600 miles into the interior of the region before emptying into the Gulf of Guinea.

• Nile

• Niger

• Mississippi

• Amazon

With more than 100 schools, universities and mosques, _____________,

was a cultural center in West Africa.

• Rome

• Cairo

• Timbuktu

• Athens

The Mali King, ____, was the richest person that ever lived on earth.

• Bill Gates

• Kwame Nkrumah

• Jeff Bezos

• Mansa Musa

______________is an area of tall grasses and scattered trees and shrubs.

• Desertification

• Zonal

• Sahel

• Savanna

_________is the belief that bodies of water, animal, trees, and other natural objects have spirits.

• Animism

• Christianity

• Islam

• Taoism

An _______ includes the father, mother, children and close relatives in ONE household.

• clan

• extended family

• external family

• open house

Mali's most famous king.

• King Tut

• Muhammad

• Mansa Musa

• Moses

Two of the earliest kingdoms in West Africa that controlled the Sahara trade in gold and salt.

• Chad and Niger

• Mali and Ghana

• Nigeria and Benin

• Togo and Benin

Between 1500 and 1870, British, french, Dutch, Portuguese,and Spanish traders sent millions on enslaved Africans to colonies in the Americas. This was known as

• the equal opportunity trade system.

• the Hebrew slave trade system.

• the Atlantic slave trade system.

• the Mali slave trade system.

Which is NOT a part of indigenous African religions?

• ancestor worship

• spirits are found in all natural objects

• one God

• saved through faith in Jesus