West Africa

A West African storyteller

• Griot
• Mohammad
• Commodity
• Timbuktu
• Al-Zahrawi

A product that is useful and valuable

• Commodity
• Mohammad
• Timbuktu
• Al-Zahrawi
• Muslims

A West African city that was a center of trade and education

• Timbuktu
• Mohammad
• Commodity
• Al-Zahrawi
• Muslims

The use of horses greatly changed trade in Africa.

• True
• False

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

• True
• False

Which of the following is the term for the traditional West African beliefs that bodies of water, animals, trees and other natural objects have spirits?

• Islam
• Extended family
• Animism
• Griot

What is a caravan?

• a group of merchants and camels crossing the desert
• a clan of people living in the mountains
• a North African family of nomads
• a port city that engages in trading

Why was salt so valuable?

• It was made into jewelry for wealthy people.
• it was only found in remote areas along the Atlantic Ocean.
• Kings kept most of it for themselves, thereby raising the price.
• It was used to preserve food.

Who enlarged the Mali Empire and made subject kings pay tribute?

• Arab traders
• the Nok people
• Sundiata Keita
• Mansa Musa

What city became a major center for Muslim art, literature, and science?

• Ghat
• Tripoli
• Alexandria
• Timbuktu