Africa Test - Global

Question 1

Who founded the empire of mali?

Answer 1

sundiata

Question 2

What was Saharan trade dominated by?

Answer 2

Gold and salt

Question 3

How did the ruler of Ghana profit from the trade routes that met in his empire?

Answer 3

By collecting toll on all goods entering or leaving Ghana.

Question 4

What did the king of Ghana gradually absorb from muslim traders?

Answer 4

The islamic religion

Question 5

How did Mansa Musa forge new trading and diplomatic ties with Muslim states?

Answer 5

Completing the Hajj

Question 6

Africa’s most populated climate zone

Answer 6

Savanna

Question 7

Africa is the ______ largest continent

Answer 7

2nd

Question 8

Why was Africa so diverse?

Answer 8

Topagraphy

Question 9

The Great Rift Valley is probably the home of ________

Answer 9

The earliest humans

Question 10

Deserts were ____% of the continent

Answer 10

40%

Question 11

What was their topography like?

Answer 11

plateaus
deserts

Question 12

What was the effect of the topagrphy?

Answer 12

Plateaus -
- Make it hard to farm / unsuitable farming
- Uninhabitable
- highway for migration and trade

Question 13

What is desertification?

Answer 13

The spread of deserts

Question 14

How much of Africa is Savana?

Answer 14

40%

Question 15

Is the Savana habitable or uninhabitable

Answer 15

habitable

Question 16

How much of Africa is rainforests?

Answer 16

5%

Question 17

Are the rainforests habitable or uninhabitable

Answer 17

uninhabitable

Question 18

Africa has many _________ and __________ making it easy for trade

Answer 18

• Rivers
• Deserts

Question 19

Africa is _________ rich

Answer 19

resourse

Question 20

What is Animism?

Answer 20

• Spirits are present in nature / spirit in everything (including plants, animals and rocks)
• Spirits called upon for success, can create disaster

Question 21

What are the names of the African Kingdoms?

Answer 21

Ghana, Mali and Songhai

Question 22

Why were West African Kingdoms so rich?

Answer 22

Due to their location and resources
- rivers
- deserts
- gold
- Salt