Africa Retest Review

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How did African Kingdoms make their money in the Middle Ages? Options: selling slaves to Europeans, trading gold across the desert, trading salt for silk across the ocean, pirating and raiding ships in the Atlantic Ocean

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trading gold across the desert

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Which 3 kingdoms traded gold and salt in western Africa? Options: Mali, Axum, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Axum, Ethiopia, Ghana, Timbuktu, Ethiopia, Mali

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Ghana, Mali, Songhai

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Mansa Musa is most famous for

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converting to Islam and his pilgrimage to Mecca

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Early African kingdoms such as Ghana and Mali made most of their wealth by

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trading gold across the Sahara Desert.

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The people of West Africa preserved the record of their past through the use of: oral histories, cuneiform writings, stories written on scrolls, hieroglyphics

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oral histories

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Which is the correct order, according to time and size? Options: Mali, Songhai, Ghana, Songhai, Mali, Ghana, Ghana, Songhai, Mali, Ghana, Mali, Songhai

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Ghana, Mali, Songhai

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The most important West African city, for trade and education, was

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Timbuktu

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Gold was traded equally for salt in West Africa.

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True

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What is a griot?

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storytellers who pass down oral history

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What is a caravan?

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group of traders that travel together