13.3 Mali & Trans-Saharan Trade

Mali's rise to power was under the ruler Mansa Musa

• True

• False

Richest Man in the History of the World, was a Muslim who ruled Mali in the 1300's

• Sundiata

• Mansa Musa
• Sunni Ali

• Askia the Great

Leader of the Songhai Empire when they gained their most wealth and power, became leader in 1464

• Sundiata

• Askia the Great
• Sonni Ali
• Mansa Musa

Became leader of the Songhai Empire when he was 50, ruled for 35 years

• Mansa Musa
• Sundiata

• Sunni Ali

• Askia the Great

Local Leaders had this Title

• the Great

• Muhammad

• Arquebus

• Mansa

The capital city of the Songhai Empire was Timbuktu

• False

• True

The Almoravids fired the __________ into the enemy's foundation

• mansa

• arquebus

• Songhai

• catapult

Great ___________ was founded in the late 1000's as a small trading and herding center

• Songhai

• ocean
• Zimbabwe

• mountains

______________ location on the Niger River allowed its people to control trade

• Mali's

• Zimbabwe's

• Sahara Desert
• Songhai's

The Trans-Saharan Trade Route leads to what for the first time?

• Introduction of elephants
• Invention of the wheel
• Spread of Christianity

• Enslavement of Africans