West Africa Test

Question 1

What were the 3 Early Empires?

Answer 1

Ghana
Mali
Songhai

Question 2

Empire located between two rivers?

Answer 2

Ghana

Question 3

Who knew how to work with iron and started off as farmers?

Answer 3

Ghana

Question 4

What did they trade?

Answer 4

Gold & Salt

Question 5

The process in which people exchange goods without ever contacting each other directly

Answer 5

Silent Barter

Question 6

What caused the end of the Ghana Empire?

Answer 6

Invasion
Almoravids
Overgrazing
Internal Problems

Question 7

King Sundiata led this Empire

Answer 7

Mali

Question 8

Who introduced cotton?

Answer 8

Mali Empire

Question 9

Who spread Islam throughout Northern Africa?

Answer 9

Mansa Musa

Question 10

Who is considered to be one of the greatest leaders in African history, that added trade cities and Timbuktu to the Empire?

Answer 10

Mansa Musa

Question 11

What did Mansa Musa do during Hajj?

Answer 11

Handed out over $100 million dollars in gold
Built mosques

Question 12

What caused the world to “grow”

Answer 12

Discoveries made by Marco Polo
The crusades
Scientific discoveries & developments
Interest+Technology= Exploration

Question 13

What did Europeans want all things to be?

Answer 13

“Chinesey”

Question 14

Marco Polo brought back

Answer 14

silk
spices
pasta

Question 15

Who returned with stories of what they saw in Asia?

Answer 15

The Crusades

Question 16

Instrument to help sailors calculate the distance from the equator

Answer 16

Astrolabe

Question 17

A ship that was faster than other ships when sailing into the wind

Answer 17

Caravel

Question 18

Triangle shaped sail used on the caravel

Answer 18

Lateen Sails

Question 19

What were the dangers in traveling by land?

Answer 19

Deserts
Mountains
Warring tribes/Pirates
Cost

Question 20

Bartholomeu Dias

Answer 20

1488

Question 21

Vasco de Gama

Answer 21

1497

Question 22

What are the 3 G’s?

Answer 22

God
Glory
Gold

Question 23

System where a country’s value/power is based on how much gold it has

Answer 23

Mercantilism

Question 24

Why not Natives for slave trade?

Answer 24

Immune to local illness +
Had “family” in the area -
Knew the land -

Question 25

Why not White People for slave trade?

Answer 25

Looked like everyone else Religion

Question 26

Why Africans for slave trade?

Answer 26

Thousands of miles from home Didn't know the land Didn't look like everyone else Were "different" and not "civilized" like Europeans

Question 27

Future slave's journey from Africa to the New World that took 4-6 weeks

Answer 27

The Middle Passage

Question 28

Who was apart of the American Colonization Society?

Answer 28

James Madison James Monroe Thomas Jefferson

Question 29

What are Nigeria's 4 main ethnic groups?

Answer 29

Hausa- North Fulani- North Yoruba- SW Ibo- SE

Question 30

Which Ethnic group tried to break away in the 1960's and is now at the bottom of the food chain?

Answer 30

Ibo

Question 31

Nigeria's main source of income

Answer 31

oil

Question 32

"The most distant place on Earth?"

Answer 32

Timbuktu

Question 33

What led to Timbuktu's fame?

Answer 33

Tales of gold

Question 34

The Trans-Saharan trade was what?

Answer 34

Salt & Gold

Question 35

The ____ wear their riches on their ears?

Answer 35

Fulani

Question 36

________ used to be worth as much as gold?

Answer 36

Salt

Question 37

The Nomadic _____ are the masters of the salt trade?

Answer 37

Tuaregs

Question 38

Who brought the written word to Mali?

Answer 38

Muslums

Question 39

Europeans believed that civilization came to West Africa with the _______?

Answer 39

Arabs

Question 40

The Yang Joy dance of the dogon people was a dance to celebrate what?

Answer 40

The dead

Question 41

Who protected the secrets of Timbuktu?

Answer 41

Muslums

Question 42

How many students were believed to have been at the University of Timbuktu?

Answer 42

25,000

Question 43

What is the Sea of Sand?

Answer 43

The Sahara Desert

Question 44

When people got their degrees, what did they wear?

Answer 44

Turbon

Question 45

What were the female warriors of Dahomey called, and what did they use as trophies?

Answer 45

Amazons- skulls & jawbones of their enemies

Question 46

The only African religion to survive in the New World?

Answer 46

Voodoo