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Chapter 14 West Africa Test (Adapted)

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Matching: Select the best option for the definition.

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Name the Empire: Choose from Ghana, Mali, or Songhai

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Question 1

1.

What geographical feature was most important to people living in West Africa?

Sahara

Niger River

Savanna

Question 2

2.

West Africa was plentiful with what two resources?

salt and oil

oil and gold

salt and gold

Question 3

3.

A long, deep valley formed by the movement of the earth's crust

griot

rift

Sahel

Question 4

4.

Which of the following best explains the usefulness of the practice of silent barter?

It often allowed traders to take advantage of the people they were trading with 

It ensured that trading was peaceful and that the location of the mines remained secret

It allowed people who did not speak the same language to trade

Question 5

5.

Which of these was NOT a reason for the decline of the Ghana Empire

Invasion

Overgrazing

Overpopulation

Question 6

6.

Who were the mansas?

Local leaders who held both political and religious roles in Malian society

Merchants from territories north of the Sahara

A group of elders who counseled Sundiata on important issues

Question 7

7.

Which of these was NOT a West African leader

Mansa Musa

Sundiata

Ibn Battutah

Question 8

8.

What city was once the center of the Mali Empire and became the center of the Songhai Empire?

Djenne

Timbuktu

Mecca

Question 9

9.

Which of the following best illustrates a similarity between the development of the Ghana and Mali Empires?

Both empires lay along the upper Niger River, where fertile soil made food plentiful

Both empires were helped by outsiders

Both empires took advantage of the large gold mines within their empires to fund their armies

Question 10

10.

List the regions in order from North to South in Africa

Other Answer Choices:

Sahel

Sahara

Savanna

Rain forest

Question 11

11.

Choose the best answer

	desertification	animism
process by which fertile land becomes a desert

Question 12

12.

Choose the best answer

	scarcity	animism
Belief that bodies of water, animals, trees, and other natural objects have spirits

Question 13

13.

Choose the best answer

	Tunka Manin	Mansa Musa
Mali's most famous leader

Question 14

14.

Choose the best answer

	animism	scarcity
Shortage of something (ex. crops, trees)

Question 15

15.

Choose the best answer

	commodity	griot
Tradable goods (ex. crops, salt, gold)

Question 16

16.

Choose the best answer

	griot	savannah
West African story teller

Question 17

17.

Choose the best answer

	commodity	savanna
open grassland, with scattered trees

Question 18

18.

Choose the best option

	Tunka Manin	Sundiata
Ghana reached it's height under this man

Question 19

19.

Mansa Musa was its most famous leader_______ 

Question 20

20.

Askia the Great was a leader here_______ 

Question 21

21.

Created silent barter. Were the first to establish the gold/salt trade_______ 

Question 22

22.

Name TWO (2) of the reasons for the decline of the Ghana Empire

Question 23

23.

Name the TWO (2) most important resources found in West Africa