WH Module 12 Assessment

How did Islam spread throughout Africa?

• It spread by conquest and through trade.
• Muslim teachers traveled throughout Africa to introduce the faith.
• Ibn Battuta traveled through 27 countries to teach the Qur'an.
• Universities were established to teach the religion

What did Portugal's initial interest in Africa mostly seem to concern?

• politics
• religion
• trade
• agriculture

Stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea

• Sahara
• Aksum
• Ghana
• Songhai

located south of Kush on a rugged plateau on the Red Sea, in what are now the countries of Eritrea and Ethiopia

• Sahara
• Aksum
• Ghana
• Songhai

The Soninke people called their ruler _____, or war chief. Muslim traders began to use the word to refer to the Soninke region

• Sahara
• Aksum
• Ghana
• Songhai

They built up an army and extended their territory to the large bend in the Niger River near Gao. They gained control of the all-important trade routes. Gao was the capital of their empire.

• Sahara
• Aksum
• Ghana
• Songhai

a belief system in which spirits play an important role in regulating daily life

• animism
• push-pull factors

can either push people out of an area or pull them into an area.

• animism
• push-pull factors

Starting in the first few centuries AD and continuing over 1,500 years, small groups moved southward throughout Africa, spreading their language and culture.

• Bantu-speaking peoples
• Mali
• Swahili
• Great Zimbabwe

Its founders were Mande speaking people who lived south of Ghana

• Bantu-speaking peoples
• Mali
• Swahili
• Great Zimbabwe