WorksheetsHistory: Central and West Africa
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Which of the following is a reason why the demand for salt was as high as gold at one time?
Salt could be used as medicine.
Salt was necessary to preserve meat.
Mansa Musa gave away so much gold that salt was more rare than gold.
People did not know that items could be made out of gold.
Which empire became rich from its control and trade of gold and salt?
The Bantu
The Mali Empire
The Ghana Empire
The Songhai Empire
Mansa Musa was the leader of which Empire?
Timbuktu
The Mali Empire
The Songhai empire
The Ghana Empire
The first Mali leader was Sundiata - what does this stand for?
The King of Islam
The founder of Timbuktu
The Lion King
The uprising King
What do some people think about Timbuktu?
It was a myth
It was the cause of the civil war
It was over developed
It is the holy land for Muslims
When did European's begin to colonize the new world?
1200's
1300's
1400's
1500's
By the 1600's what were European traders looking to trade?
Salt
Gold
People
Silk
Where were the invaders who sacked Timbuktu, resulting in the fall of the Sobghai, from?
Algeria
Morocco
Libya
Mongolia
Which religious pilgrimage did Mansa Musa take with 60,000 attendants, 100 camels, 12,000 slaves and two tons of gold?
A trip to the Wailing Wall
The Hajj
The 5 pillars of Islam
A trip to the Vatican city
How many years of dominance did the Ghana Empire have?
300 years
400 years
600 years
800 years
