WorksheetsUnit Test - West Africa
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 9mins
The Muslim leader of Mali who supported education, spread Islam, and made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca was
Sundiata
Mansa Musa
Askia the Great
Sunni Ali
Which desert did the African trade routes have to cross?
Kalahari Desert
Thar Desert
Gobi Desert
Sahara Desert
first West African Empire that became wealthy through controlling the salt and gold trade.
Ghana
Mali
Songhai
Griots
second West African empire that prospered from gold-salt trade. After converting to Islam, became a center of Muslim culture.
Ghana
Mali
Songhai
Griots
The 3 kingdoms that were a part of the gold-salt trade?
Ghana, Mali, and Songhai
Ghana, Songhai, and Persia
Ghana, Mali, and Timbuktu
Ghana, Songhai, and Rome
The sea journey undertaken by slave ships from Africa.
Middle Passage
The Transatlantic Slave Trading
The Columbian Exchange
Mercantilism
To meet the massive demand for labor where did the Europeans look for slaves?
Europe
Africa
Asia
Australia
How were enslaved individuals affected by the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
Individuals suffered from brutal treatment in the Americas
Individuals endured terrible conditions aboard ships in the Middle Passage
Individuals attempted to preserve their African culture in the Americas
All of the above
When did the Atlantic Slave Trade begin?
1619
1620
1621
1622
The process by which animals, plants and diseases crossed and had been exchanged to the New World (The Americas - South & North)
The Middle Passage
The Columbian Exchange
Mercantilism
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
What kingdom, in West Central Africa, was a complex society with female rulers who traded and later fought with the Portuguese?
North America
Ndongo Kingdom
Animal Kingdom
Songhai
Where did the first Africans arrive, in 1619, located in modern day Virginia?
Point Comfort
Jamestown
Richmond
