West African societies

What natural resource in West Africa was valued as much as gold?

• salt

• iron

• ivory

• nuts

What natural resource in West Africa was valued as much as gold?

• Niger river

• Nile river

• senegal river

• sahara desert

All of these were early African empires EXCEPT

• Songhai

• Kongo

• sudan

• Benin

A dry grassland with few trees is a

• desert

• grassy plain

• rainforst

• savana

Who was Askia Muhammad ?

• first emperor of songhai

• a ruler of mali

• a ruler of songhai

• Moroccan traveler

The three West African empires controlled the salt and gold trade (otherwise known as the Trans-Saharan Caravan Trade), which made them very wealthy.

• false

• True

which one of the African kingdoms was the largest and richest kingdom

• kongo

• mali

• benin

• songhai

West Africans devided the tasks by age and by social status

• false

• True

   _____________ consisted of a series of small kingdoms ruled by a single leader called the Manikongo.

• Kongo

• Benin

• savana

• Songhai

------------------- was a Muslim born in Granada and raised in North Africa and he described the bustling prosperity of Timbuktu.

•   Leo Africanus

• Jacob Egharevba

• Askia  Muhammad

• Sunni Ali