Africa

They used ________ to travel across the Sahara in caravans.

• elephants
• ostriches
• camels

What was not a commercial product in Africa?

• salt
• Kola beans
• silk cloth
• gold

In ancient times, salt was ounce for ounce as valuable as ______.

• diamonds
• gold
• ostrich

_______ meant life to the people of the Sahara.

• Kola beans
• gold
• salt

There were large salt deposits in the Sahara desert near the city of _______.

• Songhai
• Timbuktu
• Taghaza
• Cairo

Trans-Saharan caravans did not worry about ______.

• falling off of a camel
• terribles Heat
• brutal sand storms
• robbery attempts
• getting lost in the desert

To which European country did African trade extend?

• Italy

• England

• France

This African country of today was not rich in gold.

• Ghana
• Chad
• Senegal
• Nigeria

They carried ____ in hollow feather spines.

• Kola beans
• salt
• gold
• ivory

What is not an ancient African kingdom that controlled trans-Saharan trade?

• Ghana
• Taghaza
• Mali
• Songhai