African Kingdoms quiz

To tame animals and adapt plants for human use

• Breeding

• Domesticating

• Hybridizing

• Mutating

Which was the first of the West African trading kingdoms?

• Mali

• Songhai

• Ghana

When Europeans came across the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, they thought they had built by white people because

• They couldn't believe Africans had built anything so complex

• Many of the people living there had light colored skin

• They found pottery and tools similar to those in Europe

• They found diagrams of constellations only visible in the northern hemisphere

The "Salt and gold and profit" song was talking about trade in

• Great Zimbabwe

• Aksum

• The Congo

• The West African trading kingdoms

The main difference between the Paleolithic and Neolithic Ages was

• They had no art or religion in the Paleolithic Age

• They used iron tools and weapons in the Neolithic Age

• They didn't farm in the Paleolithic Age

• No real difference, they just started at different times

He is widely considered the richest man who ever lived

• Sundiata

• Mansa Musa

• Ibn Battuta

• Jeff Bezos

The Bantu people of West Africa were very successful because they were the first Africans to do which two things

• Manufacturing and mining

• Domesticating animals and stone tools

• Farming and mining

• Farming and smelting iron