Unit 11 Early Africa

Which of the following was an important part of African culture?

• Music
• Dance
• Art
• All of these

Tracing family through the mother's line is called:

• Patrilineal
• Matrilineal
• Sisterlineal
• Freemanlineal

When a family of multiple generations lives together that is called....

• oral history
• extended family
• slavery 
• matrilineal

What two valuable ingredients often led to power for the Ancient African civilizations?

• gold and silver
• salt and pepper
• Salt and gold
• ivory and silk

People that passed down the African stories through oral history are called

• Sheik
• Swahili
• Clan
• Griots

This famous Mali leader was known as the richest man in the ancient world. He was...

• Queen Nzinga
• Askia
• Mansa Musa
• Ibn Battuta

Which of the following was an important landform that limited the development of civilizations until conquered by the camel and the Berbers?

• Sahara Desert
• Savannah
• Rainforest
• the Great Zimbabwe

Which of the following locations was NOT a major leg of the Triangular Trade?

• Europe

• the Americas

• Africa

• Asia

How did Mansa Musa establish West Africa as a center of Islamic culture?

• He spent so much gold on his haij that it upset the economy of Egypt for years.

• He extended Mali’s territory and made Mali one of the largest empires of its time.

• He brought Muslim scholars, artists, and teachers from his haij to work in Timbuktu.

• He established trade links with Muslim salt merchants in North Africa.

Enslaved Africans traveled across the Atlantic Ocean to America by way of the:

• middle passage.

• Trans-Saharan trade route.

• pilgrimage to Mecca.

• African passage.