Chapter 8 - African Civilizations

The use of horses greatly changed the trade in Africa.

• True

• False

Some gold from West Africa reached Europe and Asia.

• True

• False

Ghana had more territory, more people, and more trade than Mali.

• True

• False

Ghana was an important trade center situated between salt mines and gold mines.

• True

• False

As the Mali Empire traded with Berbers and Arabs, they also exchanged cultures and ideas.

• True

• False

has some of the earliest human fossils

• Djenne-jeno

• Great Rift Valley

• Kente

• Moroccans

• Savanna

their invasion brought down the Songhai Empire.

• Djenne-jeno

• Great Rift Valley

• Kente

• Moroccans

• Savanna

Largest trading center in West Africa by 250 B.C.E.

• Djenne-jeno

• Great Rift Valley

• Kente

• Moroccans

• Savanna

a cloth whose name comes from an African word meaning 'basket'

• Djenne-jeno

• Great Rift Valley

• Kente

• Moroccans

• Savanna

Tropical grasslands with enough rain for farming and hearding

• Djenne-jeno

• Great Rift Valley

• Kente

• Moroccans

• Savanna