West Africa Quiz

What order do the empires go in, from earliest to latest?

• Songhai, Mali, Ghana

• Mali, Songhai, Ghana

• Ghana, Mali, Songhai

• Mali, Ghana, Songhai

What is a griot?

• storytellers who pass down oral history

• pilgrimage to mecca

• group of traders who travel together

• exchanging goods without direct contact

What two products were the most valuable in the Kingdoms of West Africa?

• Gold and grain

• cotton and kola nuts

• salt and cattle

• gold and salt

Mansa Musa was leader of which West African trading empire?

• Songhai

• Mali

• Ghana

• Axum

What do we call a group of camels and humans traveling with goods to sell?

• Plateau

• Republic

• Caravan

• Fief

The main river that all three empires were focused around was what?

• Nile

• Tigris

• Volta

• Niger

How did the empires profit from outside traders?

• Taxing trade

• Capturing slaves

• Finding gold mines

• Selling fish

Which West African empire controlled the largest territory?

• Mali

• Ghana

• Songhai

• Axum

Mansa Musa was a follower of which religion, which he helped spread throughout the kingdom?

• Christianity

• Judaism

• Zoroastrianism

• Islam

What was the method of trade where the two groups would never have direct contact?

• Slave Trade

• Forced Trade

• Silent Barter

• Never talk trade