3.2 Ghana Review

West African empires were in a perfect spot to trade because they were in between 2 important natural resources.

• silver and diamonds

• silver and gold

• gold and rice

• gold and salt

Which muslim group from North Africa invaded Ghana during the empires decline?

• Berbers

• Maghreb

• Moors

• Almoravids

The wealthiest city found in the Empire of Ghana was...

• Timbuktu

• Gao

• Djenne

• Koumbi

Salt was a biologically important mineral found where in Africa?

• Northern Sahara desert
• the rainforest
• Zimbabwe
• the sahel

How did the empire of Ghana become rich?

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

The Ghana Empire was known as the Land of...

• Salt

• Gold

• Silver

• Diamonds

What is the best definition of Trans Saharan trade?

• Trade through the Saharan Desert
• Trade below the Saharan Desert
• Trade around the Saharan Desert
• Trade above the Saharan Desert

__________ was the first of the wealthy West African kingdoms.

• Aksum

• Ghana

• Mali

• Songhai

__________ controlled the trade routes between the salt mines in the north and the gold mines in the south.

• Ghana

• Songhai

• Great Zimbabwe

• Aksum

What was the main reason Ghana profited from the trade industry?

• They charged traders taxes to pass through. 
• They took half of the goods being traded. 

• They were the oness doing all the trading, so it was 100% profit

• They did not permit trade.