Medieval West African Geography

Along which physical feature did many trading cities develop?

• Deserts

• Mountains

• Rivers

• Rainforests

West African kings made money on trade by…

• Taxing traders.

• Selling gold.

• Buying camels.

• Mining salt.

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

• Desertification

• Zonal

• Sahel

• Savanna

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

Which letter represents the Sahara on the map?

• A

• B

• C

• D

What is the physical environment of the Sahara?

• a rainforest

• a grassland

• a desert

• a zone between desert and grassland

What is a transitional zone between the dry Sahara and the grasslands of the savanna?

• the desert

• the Sahel

• the tropical rainforests

• the ocean

The trans-Saharan trade carried out by West Africa civilizations was primarily based on an exchange of . . .

• gold and salt

• ivory and silk

• silver and tea

• hardwoods and animal skins

Which river was important to the kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai

• Nile

• Niger

• Sahara

• Euphrates

What are TWO important cities in the Mali Empire

• Djenne

• Timbuktu

• Mecca

• Thebes