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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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List the regions in order from North to South in Africa

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Sahel

Sahara

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Rain forest

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Mansa Musa was its most famous leader_______ 

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Askia the Great was a leader here_______ 

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

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

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

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

Sahara

Niger River

Savanna

West Africa was plentiful with what two resources?

salt and oil

oil and gold

salt and gold

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

griot

rift

Sahel

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

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

Invasion

Overgrazing

Overpopulation

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

Which of these was NOT a West African leader

Mansa Musa

Sundiata

Ibn Battutah

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

Djenne

Timbuktu

Mecca

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

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desertification

animism

process by which fertile land becomes a desert

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scarcity

animism

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

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Tunka Manin

Mansa Musa

Mali's most famous leader

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animism

scarcity

Shortage of something (ex. crops, trees)

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commodity

griot

Tradable goods (ex. crops, salt, gold)

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griot

savannah

West African story teller

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commodity

savanna

open grassland, with scattered trees

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Tunka Manin

Sundiata

Ghana reached it's height under this man