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Question 1

Explain how the gold/salt trade route led to a greater wealth in the kingdom of Ghana.

Answer 1

Ghana made most of its money from the taxes it enforced on the gold-salt trade that passed through its lands.

Question 2

Why did Islam not spread further south in Africa?

Answer 2

It is because Africa sits below the Arabian Peninsula so Islam spread from the north downward.

Question 3

Few large settlements developed in the Sahara because it was too…

A: Dry
B: Hilly
C: Large
D: Small

Answer 3

Dry

Question 4

How did Ghana raise money to pay government officials?

A: by mining salt
b: by selling gold
c: by taxing goods
d: by buying camels

Answer 4

Taxing goods

Question 5

Islam was first brought to West Africa by…

a: enslaved prisoners
b: armed nomads
c: caravan traders
d: religious refugees

Answer 5

Caravan traders

Question 6

Which of these religious practices of West African Muslims begin before Islamic influence reached the region?

a: studying the Qur’an
b: praying to God in Arabic
c: building mosques for worship
d: praying to the spirits of ancestors

Answer 6

Praying to the spirits of ancestors

Question 7

For what was the city of Timbuktu known for?

a: its productive salt mines
b: its talented portrait artists
c: its community of scholars
d: its sea trade with East Asia

Answer 7

its community of scholars