Ch. 7 African Civilization Test

What was a significant effect of Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage to Mecca?

• Islamic learning and culture expanded in Mali

• The African written language spread to southwest Asia

• Mansa Musa gave up Islam

• Sundiata was no longer important to history

In which African empires was Islam an important religion? Choose the TWO correct answers.

• Mali

• Axum

• Kush

• Songhai

Who led a great caravan to Mecca, bringing his empire to the attention of the world?

• Askia Muhammad
• As-Saheli
• Mansa Sundiata
• Mansa Musa

is a group of people who have descended from the same Ancestor?

• Village

• Clan

• Spiritual
• Communities

means tracing ancestry through mothers rather than Fathers?

• Matrilineal
• Ancestry

• Patrilineal

is the type of landform in which the Great Rift Valley was Created? (flat land)

• Sugarcane
• Clan
• Plateau
• Grasslands

Open grassland with scattered trees

• rainforest

• sahel

• desert

• savannah

moist, densely wooded areas

• sahel

• rainforest

• savannah

• desert

Mali's rise to power began under a ruler named

• Sundiata

• Mansa Musa

• Mufasa

• Askia the Great

Storytellers of early West Africa were called

• griots

• scribes

• proverbs

• epics