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West Africa and Islam

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Mali is a kingdom located in which region of Africa?

a)

Southern Africa along the orange river

b)

The Sudan where the Blue Nile and White Nile meet at Khartout

c)

West Africa in the Sahel region along the Niger River

2.

Who was Mansa Musa the nephew of?

(a)  

3.

Timbuktu was a prominent city of the ___ and ____ century and the cultural center of Mali and Sahel mosques.

a)

13th and 14th century

b)

15th and 16th century

c)

12th and 13th century

d)

14th and 15th century

4.

What were the great mosques of Timbuktu?

a)

Djingarey Ber

b)

Sankore

c)

Sidi Yahia

d)

Koranic Sankore University

e)

Abuja National Mosque

5.

When was Djingarey built and where did the style originate from?

a)

1327, King of Mali, Mansa Musa

b)

1347, King of Mali, Mansa Musa

c)

1368, King of Mali, Mansa Musa

d)

Why are the answers so confusing???

6.

Who was the famous visitor of the library of Manuscripts?

a)

Mansa Musa

b)

Ibn Battuta

c)

Ibn Batuta

d)

King of Mali - Ibn Batutta

7.

Djenne has been occupied since ____BCE and became a market Centre along the trans-Saharan gold trade routes of the ___to___ century.

a)

250 BCE, 13th to 14th century

b)

350 BCE, 14th to 15th century

c)

250 BCE, 15th to 16th century

d)

350 BCE, 12th to 13th century

8.

By the late 13th and 14th centuries, well-established cities in the_____ and ____ had large Muslim institutions.

a)

Sahel and Mali

b)

Timbuktu and Djenne

c)

Sahara and Sahel

d)

Djenne and Sankore

9.

By the 11th century, Islam reached the ____region and vast areas of the Sahel across to the ____.

a)

Senegalese coastal, Sudan

b)

Mali, Nigeria

c)

Timbuktu, Mali

d)

Djenne, Timbuktu

10.

Islam spread across the Sahara to the _____.

a)

Sahel

b)

Timbuktu

c)

Mali

d)

Djenne

11.

"He was famous for his long caravan expedition across ___ to ___."

Who was famous? Expedition across what?

a)

Mansa Musa, Sahara to Cairo

b)

Nephew of Marijata, Sahara to Cairo

c)

Nephew of Sunjata, Sahel to Cairo

d)

King of Mali, Sahel to Cairo

e)

King of Mali, Sahara to Cairo

12.

Islam also spread through the West African states and East Africa through ______ contacts and long-distance caravan routes to Arab Muslim cities of ______.

a)

merchant; northern Africa

b)

merchant; eastern Africa

c)

merchant; southern Africa

d)

merchant; western Africa