WorksheetsKingdoms of West Africa
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What was the key to the success of the West African kingdoms?
Military
Trade
Religion
What were the three most important trade goods in West Africa?
Salt
Slaves
Copper
Linen
Gold
Which of these is necessary for survival, especially in the desert?
Salt
Gold
Slaves
Clothes
Which two terms describe the Kingdom of Ghana relative to other West African kingdoms?
Earliest
Smallest
Largest
Youngest
There as so much ________ in West Africa, that people actually built buildings out of it.
gold
salt
slaves
What were the two most important cities in Mali?
Gao
Djenné
Timbuktu
Abijan
Rome
What is the importance of Timbuktu and Djenné?
They were the capital cities of the Kingdoms of Ghana and Mali.
They had large gold and salt mines in them that made the kingdom wealthy.
They strengthened cultural and trading connections between West Africa and the world.
Which of these trades would have made the most sense for the Kingdom of Mali?
Gold for Salt
Gold for Copper
Gold for Fresh Water
Gold for Slaves
What did Askia the Great use to unite his kingdom?
Military service
Low taxes
Duct tape
Islam
What two changes weakened the Songhai Kingdom?
New sailing technology
The start of the Crusades
The invention of gunpowder
The growth of the slave trade
Who conquered the Songhai in the end?
Arabs and Berbers
Romans
Europeans
Another West African kingdom
Which West African kingdom had a ruler named Mansa Musa?
Ghana
Mali
Songhai
Which West African kingdom had a ruler named Askia the Great?
Ghana
Mali
Songhai
Which of these most accurately describes why the kingdoms of West Africa kept getting attacked and conquered?
West African kingdoms were constantly invading other kingdoms. Those kingdoms wanted revenge.
Islam required that Muslims constantly go to war with unbelievers.
Other people wanted to control the wealthy trade routes of West Africa.
Europeans wanted to colonize the world and attacked anyone they thought they could conquer.
When the trans-Saharan trade routes changed, what effect did it have on West African kingdoms?
They adapted to take advantage of new trade routes.
They were never as rich or powerful as they had been in the past.
They became even wealthier thanks to the changed routes.
The changes in the trade routes had no effect on the West African kingdoms.
