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5 Quiz
West Africa
Key Version B
1) What is the key version?
a) A
b) B
2) According to the map, where were most
of the god and salt resources of West
Africa located? (DO NOW 10/24/2016)
a) Gold, desert; Salt, rain forest
b) Gold, savannah; Salt, desert
c) Salt, savannah; Gold, rain forest
d) Salt, desert; Gold, rain forest
3) In Ghana, crops grew best in (DO NOW
10/24/2016)
a) the savannah
b) the rain forests
c) the Sahara
d) Timbuktu
4) How did the use of camels most likely
affect trade? (DO NOW 10/24/2016)
a) They had little effect.
b) Trans-Saharan trade increased.
c) Fewer goods could be transported.
d) Trade could occur in north-south
direction only.
5) Why was Ghana able to control the goldsalt trade? (DO NOW 10/24/2016)
a) It had a strong army that could
overpower traders.
b) It took the land that Mali once had.
c) It owned all of the gold and salt mines.
d) It was located at the meeting point for
gold and salt traders.
6) What was one result of the shift in trade
routes? (DO NOW 10/24/2016)
a) Ghana grew stronger.
b) Golds value declined.
c) Trans-Saharan trade decreased.
d) Mali gained control of the gold-salt trade.
12)What is a vocabulary word for a region
that, because of its soil and climate, has
distinctive types of plants?
a) Clan
b) Griot
c) Kinship
d) Labor specialization
e) Vegetation zone
24) Who were a group of Muslims that
declared war on Ghana, and in 1076 C.E.
captured the capital city of Ghana?
a) Abbasids
b) Almoravids
c) Berbers
d) Fatimids
e) Umayyads
28) In what year did Mansa Musa become
king?
a) 1101
b) 1112
c) 1213
d) 1312
e) 1324
29) What does Mansa mean in the Malinke
language?
a) God
b) Gold
c) King
d) Prophet
e) Salt
35) In 1492, after Sunni Ali died which family
member became ruler of Songahi?
a) Brother
b) Father
c) Mother
d) Son
e) Wife