Kingdoms of Africa Quiz
A. Almoravids
B. Mali
C. gold
D. Koumbi Saleh
E. process
AB. Iron
AC. Salt
AD. Nok
AE. Silent barter
BC. Soninke
BD. Timbuktu
BE. Tunka Manin
CD. Taxes
CE. Nigerians
DE. None of These
1.
An Empire in West Africa that became a powerful from the Gold-Salt Trade
2.
Useful in making weapons and farm tools
3.
Used to preserve food and found in the Sahara
4.
A series of steps by which a task is accomplished
5.
Threatened by nomadic herders, these farmers banded together for protection & formed Ghana
6.
Process in which people exchange goods by contacting each other directly at riverbanks
7.
Ghana’s main city, an oasis for travelers, and a great trading center.
8.
Ghananian king with who ruled during the golden age of the 1320’s and 1330’s
9.
Attacked Ghana in the 1060’s.
10.
Charged by Ghana’s rulers to merchants entering and leaving Ghana
Fill in the Blank – some of these should be very easy but try to know what makes a wrong answer wrong.
11. Mali’s location on the ___________________ allowed its people to control trade. (Nile, Sahara, Niger)
12. According to legend, Mali’s rise to power began under a ruler named: (Tunka Manin, Sundiata, Koumbi Saleh)
13. A new crop introduced under the rule of Mali’s first leader was: (sugar cane, salt, cotton, flax)
14. Local leaders had the title _____________ (mansa, saleh) and had both political and religious roles in early West
Africa but not in __________ because the King consolidated all power under his own reign. (Ghana, Mali)
15. Mali’s greatest and most famous ruler was a Muslim from the 1300’s named:
(Koumbi Saleh, Mansa Musa, Gao, Sundiata)
16. This city in Mali was famous for its schools and because it was a cultural center: (Ghana, Timbuktu, Koumbi Saleh)
17. A Muslim ruler of Mali sent scholars to study Islamic religion & culture in (Niger, Morocco, Ghana)
18. Signaling the decline of the Mali empire, the city of ______________ declared its independence in the late 1400’s.
(Gao, Timbuktu, Mansa Musa)
19. In 1431 the ______________, (Tuareg, Mansa, Berbers, Almoravids) nomads from the Sahara, invaded _________ .
(Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Morocco)
20. The decline of Mali began under the rule of ____________________, the son of the empire’s greatest leader.
(Morocco, Tunka Manin, King Timbuktu, Maghan)
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Answers
1. B
2. AB
3. AC
4. E
5. BC
6. DE
7. D
8. DE
9. A
10. CD
11. NIGER
12. SUNDIATA
13. COTTON
14. MANSA, MALI
15. MANSA MUSA
16. TIMBUKTU
17. MOROCCO
18. GAO
19. TUAREG, MALI
20. MAGHAN