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WorksheetsWest Africa Unit Test
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 49mins
Griots told stories in order to preserve and pass down history.
True
False
_____ was the first of the great trading kingdoms to emerge in the area south of the Sahara in West Africa.
Ghana
Axum
Nubia
Sierra Leone
The _____ is the largest desert on Earth.
Gobi
Kalahari
Sahara
Mojave
The trade that took place in Ghana was ...
iron, and weapons.
salt and gold
camels and horses
peanuts and exotic candy
What is the African Savanna considered?
Ocean
Forest
Grassland
Tundra
Someone who is owned by another person and is forced to work for that person without pay.
Apartheid
Discrimination
Slavery
Racism
To treat people differently based on the belief that some races are superior than others.
Colonialism
Human Trafficking
Racism
Stereotype
A belief that ALL people from a specific racial group behave in a certain way.
Racism
Apartheid
Colonialism
Stereotype
In 1324, Mansa Musa left his empire of Mali to make a pilgrimage to ____.
Mecca
Morocco
The _____ is a strip of land between the desert and savannas.
rainforest
sahel
African storytellers who memorize and recite the names and histories of their people are called
griots
kente
Dausi
Almoravids
Africa is the second largest continent in the world.
True
False
A country is
type of music.
where someone lives.
an unbroken large land mass on planet Earth.
a nation with its own government that occupies a particular territory and has boundaries.
Arab kingdoms influenced North Africa and brought the religion of _________ and the __________ language to north and west Africa.
a. Christianity and English
b. Islam and Arabic
c. Catholicism and French
d. Buddhism and Hindi
The people of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai traded their gold for
iron, out of which they would fashion highly desired tools and weapons.
salt, which was used to preserve food and improve its taste.
camels, so they did not have to rely on the Berbers to transport their goods.
peanuts, from which they made delicious foods.
What does the word tribute mean?
A celebration
A payment
A sickness
A gift
A person in the middle of a business dealing.
tribute
griot
imam
middleman
African musical style...
has influences music around the world.
has not influenced music around the world.
has only influenced music in the Americas.
has only influenced music in Africa.
African masks and kente cloth have special meaning?
true
false
