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Worksheets1.5 Developments of Africa 1200-1450
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is a griot?
Storyteller preserving African history
Muslim temple found in East Africa
Coin used as currency in Mali empire
Ship used by Indian Ocean merchants
What were the major items traded along the Trans Sahara Trade route
gold, slaves and porcelain
silk, porcelain, paper and gunpowder
gold, slaves and spices
gold, salt, slaves and ivory
Why were camels used as pack animals along the Silk Road?
They could carry heavy loads
They did not require much water
Both
Name the two Muslim West African empires that benefited from Islamic trade
Ghana and Mali
Ghana and Egypt
Malaysia and Indonesia
Central China and Persia
This West African city was a great center of trade that had mosques, universities, and libraries.
Mecca
Rome
Los Angeles
Timbuktu
This was traded for gold and was considered to have the same worth pound for pound.
millet
salt
books
textiles
Who was not one of the travelers who recorded journeys from 1200 to 1450?
Ibn Battuta
Marco Polo
Margery Kempe
Christopher Columbus
What helped spread Tran-Sahara trade in the 1200 and 1300’s?
The decline of Indian Ocean trade caused an increase in Tran-Sahara trade
An increase in the south Africa trade routes from Zimbabwe to Ethiopia
The completion of the Mediterranean subterranean passage all the way to Samarkand
The development of as many as fifteen different forms of camel saddles
What was significant about Ibn Battuta?
He demonstrated the hostile intentions of Tran-Saharan Islam
He traveled a long way primary to lean about Islam, his own religion
He explored south Africa, and carried the Islamic religion to Zimbabwe and the Swahili states
He and his ship travelled to the Strait of Malacca where he converted to Buddhism
Where would you find this image
Kush
Zimbabwe
Axum
Ghana
Mali declined & was replaced by the kingdom of ______________.
