West Africa

Benjamin, Aria, and Maya are discussing about an item that is considered an economic good; something useful or valued. What could this item be?

• Genealogy

• Common

• Trade

• Commodity

The first West African ruler to practice Islam devoutly.

• Mansa Musa

• Griot

• Folk Tale

• Muhammad

A group of traders traveling together.

• Smelting

• Profit

• Caravan

• Camels

A talented poet-musician of the Mande people, who tells stories, sings songs, and recites poems to share history

• Commodity

• Oral Tradition

• Genealogies

• Griot

List the 3 West African kingdoms in chronological order.

• Ghana, Mali and Songhai
• Mali, Songhai and Ghana
• Songhai, Ghana and Mali
• Ghana, Songhai and Mali

What physical feature of Africa impeded the movement of people, goods and ideas?

• Atlantic Ocean
• Mediterranean Sea
• Red Sea
• Sahara Desert

How did West Africa benefit from the trans-Saharan slave trade?

• Europe became rich and powerful.
• The trading kingdoms became rich and powerful.
• West Africa was destroyed by this slave trade.
• none of the above

Trade routes to Asia, Mansa Musa's pilgrimage, and architectures building mosques are reasons for the arrival of what religion to West Africa.

• Christianity
• Catholicism
• Protestantism
• Islam

West Africa built universities to educate the people so they could read the Quran. What language did they have to learn? 

• Hebrew
• Greek
• Arabic
• Latin

What West African trade good was used to preserve meat prior to refrigeration?

• Ivory
• Salt
• Gold
• Ice