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Ancient Africa

Total questions: 54

Worksheet time: 33mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What were the dominant trade items in the West African kingdoms?

a)

cloth and diamonds

b)

salt and gold

c)

cotton and spices

d)

weapons and iron

2.

Which religion impacted the West African kingdoms?

a)

Christianity

b)

Hinduism

c)

Islam

d)

Buddhism

3.

Which trading resource was provided by the desert?

a)

gold

b)

diamonds

c)

cloth

d)

salt

4.

What was the main river in West Africa?

a)

Nile River

b)

Indus River

c)

Rhine River

d)

Niger River

5.

What famous leader of Mali made a pilgrimage to Mecca?

a)

Alexander the Great

b)

King Tut

c)

Mansa Musa

d)

Nelson Mandela

6.

What city in Mali became a center of learning, religion, and art?

a)

Timbuktu

b)

Cairo

c)

Rome

d)

Athens

7.

What is the largest desert in Africa?

a)

Gobi Desert

b)

Kalahari Desert

c)

Sahara Desert

d)

Arabian Desert

8.

Which trade item was necessary to keep people's bodies healthy and could preserve foods?

a)

salt

b)

gold

c)

spices

d)

diamonds

9.

Which kingdom took over Mali and became the largest of the West African kingdoms?

a)

Ghana

b)

Mali

c)

Songhai

10.
_________is a language spoken by many East Africans. 
a)
Swahili
b)
Zulu
c)
Ashanti
d)
Japanese
11.

African storytellers are called

a)

griots

b)

priests

c)

shaman

d)

author

12.

What type of culture traces its descent through its mothers?

a)

matrilineal

b)

patrilinial

c)

omnilineal

d)

terelineal

13.
Which one of these West African kingdoms developed first?
a)
Ghana
b)
Mali
c)
Songhai
d)
Egypt
14.
The very important set of trade routes in Northern Africa were the ____ trade routes.
a)
Silk Road
b)
Trans-Sahara
c)
Sub-Sahara
d)
Asiatic
15.

To "barter" means to

a)

buying or selling stories

b)

buying or selling only good things

c)

to exchange things for other things instead of for money

16.
What large body of water borders Africa to the north?
a)
Atlantic Ocean
b)
Black Sea
c)
Mediterranean Sea
d)
Red Sea
17.
What physical feature of Africa impeded the movement of people, goods and ideas?
a)
Atlantic Ocean
b)
Mediterranean Sea
c)
Red Sea
d)
Sahara Desert
18.
Trans-Saharan trade in early West Africa MAINLY involved the exchange of _________ for gold.
a)
Iron
b)
Salt
c)
Slaves
d)
Ivory
19.

What is the main belief of followers of animism?

a)

There is only one god

b)

Spirits play an important role in daily life

c)

People are organized into family groups

d)

Storeytellers are sacred beings who keep history alive

20.

What term describes dense, wet forests near the equator.

a)

rifts

b)

Sahel

c)

rain forests

d)

animism

21.

A family group that includes the father, mother, children, and close relatives is called......

a)

an extended family

b)

animism

c)

a Council of Elders

d)

age-set

22.

Area in Africa with higher rainfall, tall grasses, and trees

a)

Savanna

b)

Sahara

c)

Semi-arid region

d)

Vegetation zone

23.

Where were large cities most likely to form in West Africa?

a)

Near rivers

b)

near trade routes

c)

far from other extended families

d)

near the Nile River

24.

A spoken record of past of events is called

a)

handwritten history

b)

traditional history

c)

printed history

d)

oral history

25.

The use of which animal below changed trade in Africa greatly?

a)

horse

b)

donkey

c)

camel

d)

elephant

26.

Which religion below has the most people in Africa today?

a)

traditional African religions

b)

Christianity

c)

Islam

d)

Judaism

27.

Most of the Bantu clans were patrilineal? What is patrilineal?

a)

the property and children belong to the mother, a kinship with the mother

b)

the property and children belong to the father, a kinship with the father

28.

Africa is the _______________ largest continent in the world.

a)

first

b)

second

c)

third

d)

fourth

29.

Impact

a)

to have witnessed someone do something

b)

to have a life change

c)

to have the quality of one thing change

d)

to have a strong effect on someone of something

30.

Patrilineal

a)

lineage through the mother

b)

lineage through the father

31.
The official religion of Axum was
a)
Islam
b)
Judaism
c)
Christianity
d)
the worship of hundreds of gods.
32.
 ?
a)
Egypt
b)
Lbya
c)
Algeria
d)
Tunisia
33.

8. A group of people who can trace their histories to a single ancestor and are expected to support one another is called a

a)

A griot

b)

lineage group

c)

serf

d)

community

34.

Which river is shown here? Hint: it is the longest river in the world.

a)

Nile River

b)

Congo River

c)

Niger River

d)

Jordan River

35.
Sugarcane is
a)
a grassy plant that is grown as a source of sugar
b)
a grassy plant that is eaten by cows
c)
a grassy plant that is grown as a source of salt
d)
a grassy plant that is grown as a source of protein
36.

Which rivers surround Zimbabwe?

a)

Nile River and Niger River

b)

Zimbabwe River and Zambezi River

c)

Niger River and Zambezi River

d)

Zambezi River and Limpopo River

37.

What is the capital of Zimbabwe?

a)

Zambezi

b)

Great Limpopo

c)

Timbuktu

d)

Great Zimbabwe

38.

Which polytheistic religion in West Africa believed spirits reside in all natural living things?

a)

Hinduism

b)

Zoroastrianism

c)

Animism

d)

Islam

39.

Kush accepted many of the ideas of Egypt such as polytheism, mummification, and pyramids.

a)

True

b)

False

40.

Branches of the Nile River

a)

White and Black

b)

Black and Blue

c)

Tigris and Blue

d)

White and Blue

41.

What is Egyptian picture writing called?

a)

Rosetta stone

b)

Cuneiform

c)

Papyrus

d)

Hieroglyphics

42.

How does our common world map misrepresent Africa?

a)

Africa is never labelled

b)

Africa is too wide

c)

Africa is made smaller because the northern hemisphere is made larger

d)

Africa is made larger because the southern hemisphere is expanded.

43.

A caravan is

a)

a group of people or animals traveling together on a long journey especially through the desert

b)

a car that is large and shaped like a van

c)

giving money or goods to a ruler or country for protection

44.

A griot is a

a)

holy journey

b)

group of people on a long trip through the desert

c)

storyteller and entertainer in Ancient Africa

45.

To "barter" means to

a)

buying or selling stories

b)

buying or selling only good things

c)

to exchange things for other things instead of for money

46.
This West African city was a great center of trade that had mosques, universities, and libraries.
a)
Mecca
b)
Rome
c)
Los Angeles
d)
Timbuktu
47.
He was a king of the Mali empire and was considered the richest man to ever live.
a)
Mansa Musa
b)
Askia Muhammad
c)
Suni Ali
d)
Pumba
48.
This was traded for gold and was considered to have the same worth pound for pound.
a)
millet
b)
salt
c)
books
d)
textiles
49.
Which was not an outcome of trade for West Africa?
a)
West African societies became governed by kings.
b)
West African cities became centers of religion and education.
c)
West African cities became centers of trade.
d)
West African cities became increasingly isolated.
50.

Africa is a

a)

country

b)

continent

c)

city

d)

state

51.

What would make it hard to travel through the Saharan desert?

a)

wind and sand

b)

lack of water

c)

heat

d)

all of the above

52.
The main river that the Ghana empire started around:
a)
Nile
b)
Niger
c)
Volta
d)
Tigris
53.

What religion did each person in Mali practice under Mansa Musa?

a)

Judaism

b)

Christianity

c)

Buddhism

d)

Islam

54.

_________ are the most poached animal in the world.

a)

Gorillas

b)

Tigers

c)

Elephants

d)

Zebra

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