WorksheetsWest Africa
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
A West African storyteller
a)
Griot
b)
Mohammad
c)
Commodity
d)
Timbuktu
e)
Al-Zahrawi
2.
A product that is useful and valuable
a)
Commodity
b)
Mohammad
c)
Timbuktu
d)
Al-Zahrawi
e)
Muslims
3.
A West African city that was a center of trade and education
a)
Timbuktu
b)
Mohammad
c)
Commodity
d)
Al-Zahrawi
e)
Muslims
4.
The use of horses greatly changed trade in Africa.
a)
True
b)
False
5.
Ghana was an important trade center situated between salt mines and gold mines.
a)
True
b)
False
6.
Which of the following is the term for the traditional West African beliefs that bodies of water, animals, trees and other natural objects have spirits?
a)
Islam
b)
Extended family
c)
Animism
d)
Griot
7.
What is a caravan?
a)
a group of merchants and camels crossing the desert
b)
a clan of people living in the mountains
c)
a North African family of nomads
d)
a port city that engages in trading
8.
Why was salt so valuable?
a)
It was made into jewelry for wealthy people.
b)
it was only found in remote areas along the Atlantic Ocean.
c)
Kings kept most of it for themselves, thereby raising the price.
d)
It was used to preserve food.
9.
Who enlarged the Mali Empire and made subject kings pay tribute?
a)
Arab traders
b)
the Nok people
c)
Sundiata Keita
d)
Mansa Musa
10.
What city became a major center for Muslim art, literature, and science?
a)
Ghat
b)
Tripoli
c)
Alexandria
d)
Timbuktu
11.
The Sahara borders what two bodies of water on the east and west?
a)
Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea
b)
Red Sea and Atlantic Ocean
c)
Atlantic Ocean and Arabian Sea
d)
Mediterranean Sea and Arabian Sea
12.
How did the king of Ghana make money?
a)
by taxing goods that entered and left the kingdom
b)
by requiring farmers to give him most of their crops
c)
by selling land wealthy to merchants
d)
by forcing all of the Ghana people to work in his salt mines
13.
Who brought Islam to the Kingdom of Ghana?
a)
Mansa Musa
b)
Arab traders
c)
Griots
d)
Sundiata Keita
14.
What was Mansa Musa well known for?
a)
his support of the arts, learning, and Islam
b)
being the first leader of Mali
c)
overthrowing the kingdom of Ghana
d)
helping his people develop better farming methods
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