West Africa Test

Match the following

• an item left by an earlier culture

• process

• a series of actions that produce a certain result

• Niger

• the longest river in West Africa, and a kind of trading highway in early times

• savanna

• a vegetation zone of tall grasses and scattered trees, with a long rainy season

• artifact

Match the following

• a zone of semidesert, south of the Sahara, where short grasses, small bushes, and a few trees grow

• Jenne-jeno

• to say what will happen in the future, based on experience or reason

• predict

• payment made by one ruler or country to another for protection or as a sign of submission

• Sahel

• an ancient West African city built along the Niger River

• tribute

Match the following

• a people living in West Africa in the 500s B.C.E. who mastered ironworking

• smelting

• a large, hot desert in North Africa that covers about 3.5 million square miles

• Nok

• functioning in the best way, with very little or no waste

• Sahara

• the process of melting ore to produce iron or other metals from it

• efficient

By about ​ (a)   B.C.E., some people had settled to ​ (b)   south of the Sahara. An extended-family community might have had about 15 to 20 members.

Eventually, family-based communities​ (c)   to form ​ (d)   . Villages might contain one- to two-hundred people.

• 4000
• farm
• joined together
• villages
• 2023
• 1500
• fought
• empires
• kingdoms
• died

What did NOT make villages join up together?

• Control rivers

• Mine for gold and iron

• Protect each other

• Hunting lions

​ (a)   tools -> more ​ (b)  

more food -> bigger ​ (c)  

bigger villages -> ​ (d)  

new stuff -> more trade

more trade -> more ​ (e)  

• iron
• food
• villages
• new stuff
• money
• Mr. Gaskins
• wars
• horses
• games

The ___________ trade connected West Africa from other regions, such as the present-day Middle East.

• Trans-Saharan

• Trans-Siberian

• Trans-Atlantic

• Trans-Formers

​ (a)   , ​ (b)   , and ​ (c)   were all trading powers that ruled in West Africa.

• Ghana
• Mali
• Songhai
• Carthage
• Rome
• Spaion
• Spain
• Aztecs
• German

What were the two important goods in the Trans-Sharan trade

• Salt and Pepper

• Gold and Silver

• Salt and Gold

• Silver and Pepper

West African rulers who got rich from ​ (a)   and paid for ​ (b)   . They used the armies to ​ (c)   other ​ (d)   .

• trade
• armies
• conquer
• trade towns
• farming
• falling
• tools
• special jobs
• built