West African Trade Quiz

West Africans needed salt to prevent their food from _____ and to give to their cattle.

• spoiling

• freezing

• burning

• melting

The silent barter system allowed traders to exchange goods without _____ in person.

• meeting

• speaking

• negotiating

• seeing

The North Africans wanted gold, which came from the _____ region south of Ghana.

• Wangara

• Sahara

• Nile

• Kalahari

The two most in-demand goods traded between North Africa and West Africa were _____ and salt.

• gold

• silver

• copper

• ivory

Gold and salt were the two most in-demand goods traded between _____ and West Africa.

• North Africa

• East Africa

• South America

• Europe

In Muslim lands and Italy, gold was used to create _____.

• coins

• jewelry

• statues

• paintings

Muslims needed gold to purchase silk and _____ from China.

• spices

• tea

• porcelain

• jade

The exact location of Wangara's gold mines was kept _____ by the Wangarans.

• secret

• public

• unknown

• shared

According to ancient stories, merchants occasionally captured a gold miner and tried to force him to reveal the location of _____.

• the mines

• a hidden treasure

• a secret map

• a mystical cave

In one tale, after the capture of a miner, the Wangarans stopped trading for _____ years.

• three

• five

• ten

• seven