WorksheetsAfrica
Total questions: 9
Worksheet time: 5mins
What is the name of the largest hot desert in the world?
The Australian Desert
The Arabian Desert
The Gobi Desert
The Saraha
What did the Nok develop that gave them an advantage in farming and weapons?
gold
silver
iron
What does trans-Saharan trade mean?
trade across the Atlantic Ocean
trade across the Sahara Desert
Why was salt important to the people of West Africa?
Salt was important in preserving meat and for good health.
Salt was not important for people of West Africa.
Islam started growing in West Africa.
True
False
What leader of Mali made a pilgrimage to Mecca and gave away large amounts of gold?
Ibn Battuta
Sundiata Keita
Mansa Musa
Put the West African empires in chronological order.
Songhai, Mali, Ghana
Mali, Songhai, Ghana
Ghana, Mali, Sonnghai
The professional storytellers and oral historians of West Africa are called...
griots.
Mansas.
Imams.
The type of drumming that combines two or more different rhythms at the same time is called...
monorhythmic drumming
polyrhythmic drumming
trans-rhythmic drumming
