Chapter 11 Test Review (6th Grade)

A mass movement of people

• city-state

• savanna

• migration

• clan

What is the largest desert in Africa and in the World?

• the savanna

• the Sahara

• Swahili

• Songhai

An area of gently rolling land covered by grasses

• Aksum

• clan

• Mali

• savanna

The Bantu-speaking people migrated because they were looking for

• better weather conditions

• better farmland and better grazing

• gold and salt

• the coast, so that they could trade

A city that is also a separate, independent state

• Aksum

• Ghana

• Mali

• city-state

What did the Bantu-speaking people spread across Africa as they migrated?

• their language and culture

• bronze-making skills

• Christianity

• Islam

A group of families who trace their roots to the same ancestor

• clan

• savanna

• city-state

• Swahili

What item did the people of West Africa usually trade to get salt?

• gold

• bronze

• silk

• water

A Bantu language with Arabic words, spoken along the Eastern African coast

• Aksum

• Mali

• Swahili

• migration

What did Sundiata accomplish?

• He made Mali the most powerful kingdom in West Africa

• He founded the kingdom of Ghana

• He made Islam the official religion of Mali

• He conquered the people of Songhai