World History Chapter 15

The use of horses greatly changed trade in Africa.

• True

• False

Some ____from West Africa reached Europe and Asia

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

• Songhai

• Mali

• Senegal

• Gambia

Today in Africa, there are more Christians than Muslims.

• True

• False

The people in Mali supported their generals because their generals protected them from invaders.

• True

• False

_____ has some of the earliest human fossils.

• Kente

• Djenné-jeno

• Songhai

• Great Rift Valley

_____ their invasion brought down the Songhai Empire

• Djenné-jeno

• Moroccans

• Great Rift Valley

• Songhai

_______ was the largest trading center in West Africa by 250 b.c

• Djenné-jeno

• Songhai

• Moroccans

• Great Rift Valley

______ is a cloth whose name comes from an African word meaning “basket”

• Moroccans

• Songhai

• Kente

• Papyrus

By 1492, _____ was the largest empire in West Africa

• Kente

• Morocco

• Djenné-jeno

• Songhai