World History Review - 4

Africa's rain forests are located on either side of the ​ (a)  

• equator
• coastal plains
• Sahara
• deserts

How long did the Bantu migrations last?

• about 5,000 years

• about 1,000 years

• about 2,000 years

• about 100 years

How did historians study the Bantu migrations?

• Examining records of metalworking

• Studying stories told by traditional African storytellers

• Examining cattle-raising techniques

• Studying old maps of migration routes

The two most important products traded in West Africa were ​ (a)   and ​ (b)  

• gold
• salt
• wheat
• iron
• slaves

What did Muslim scholars in the empire of Mali teach students?

• About the Christian Bible

• About Swahili literature

• About religion, mathematics, medicine, and law

• About Bantu poems

What was one of the most important kingdoms of the West African forests?

• Benin

• Ghana

• Mali

• Songhai

Who did the port cities of East Africa trade with?

• China, India, and Southwest Asia

• Songhai

• Europe and the Americas

• Portugal

Who finally drove the rulers of Aksum from the coast of Africa?

• Muslim traders

• Jewish refugees

• Christian kings

• Bantu farmers

Cut off from the rest of the world, the Ethiopians developed their own form of ​ (a)  

• Christianity
• gold-salt trade
• metalworking
• farming

How did the Incas keep records?

• By scratching them into clay tablets which were then dried in the sun

• By using turkey quills to write them on scrolls

• By using a group of knotted strings called a quipu

• By carving them into stone