West Africa

Name the trade route that travels across the Sahara Desert.

• Trans-Saharan Trade Route

• Cross-Saharan Trade Route

• SIlk Road

• North African Trade Route.

The Trans-Saharan Trade Route allowed for the trade of resources from which two major African geographic features?

• Gulf of Guinea

• Nile River

• Sahara Desert

• Mediterranean Sea

• Niger River

Of the civilizations we've studied, which two would have been greatly impacted by Trans-Saharan Trade?

• Kingdom of Mali

• Abbasid Caliphate

• Byzantine Empire

• Kingdom of Ghana

• Ottoman Empire

Which term is defined as 'the exchange of goods or material'?

• monarchy

• commerce

• diffusion

• animism

A merchant is someone who...

• grows crops

• leads warriors

• teaches about religion

• trades goods

Caravans were used to...

• record business transactions

• travel across the desert

• teach reading and writing

• exchange foreign money

Why did merchants travel in caravans?

• mutual support to survive

• speed across the desert

• they didn't need to carry as much goods

• their leaders required it

Which religion spread into West Africa as a result of trade?

• Christianity

• Buddhism

• traditional religion

• Islam

What resource was widely available in the Sahara Desert?

• salt

• gold

• ivory

• coal

Merchants who brought Islam to West Africa generally came from Islamic kingdoms in which three regions?

• Western Europe

• North Africa

• Southwest Asia

• Arabian Peninsula

• East Asia