African Trade Kingdoms and Major Medieval Trade Routes Review

Question 1

Where were the kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai located?

Accepted Answer

West Africa

Question 2

True or False, Mansa Musa is seen as a hero by everyone living in modern-day Mali?

Accepted Answer

False

Question 3

What is so unique about the churches of Lalibela?

Accepted Answer

They were built from the ground down.

Question 4

King of Mali who made a legendary hajj to Mecca.

Accepted Answer

Mansa Musa

Question 5

Which was a series of overland trade routes connecting China to the Mediterranean Sea?

Accepted Answer

Silk Road

Question 6

What does this map show?

Accepted Answer

trans-Saharan Trade

Question 7

The Kingdom of Aksum became powerful based on its control of trade on this body of water:

Accepted Answer

Red Sea

Question 8

What word is used to describe trade across the Sahara Desert?

Accepted Answer

trans-Saharan

Question 9

Where is this building located?

Accepted Answer

West Africa (in Mali)

Question 10

What is this building?

Accepted Answer

a mosque

Question 11

Who is this?

Accepted Answer

Mansa Musa

Question 12

One of several powerful city states on the Swahili coast

Accepted Answer

Kilwa

Question 13

Which West African leader made a famous hajj and put Mali on the map?

Accepted Answer

Mansa Musa

Question 14

What were the two most important goods in the trans-Saharan trade?

Accepted Answer

Gold and Salt

Question 15

What is the most important use of salt in ancient, medieval, and even modern times?

Accepted Answer

preserves food

Question 16

Swahili resulted from the mixing of these people/cultures:

Accepted Answer

African, Indian, and Arab

Question 17

What body of water is north of Aksum?

Accepted Answer

Red Sea

Question 18

The term “Swahili” has a couple of meanings. Which is not an accurate description of the term?

Accepted Answer

a religion

Question 19

What religion was practiced in Aksum?

Accepted Answer

Christianity

Question 20

Which empire created these?

Accepted Answer

Aksum

Question 21

Which trade route is depicted in red?

Accepted Answer

The Silk Road

Question 22

What was a significant effect of Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage to Mecca?

Accepted Answer

Islamic learning and culture expanded in Mali.

Question 23

When would it be best for an Indian merchant to set sail for Kilwa?

Accepted Answer

in the winter

Question 24

Where is this building located?

Accepted Answer

Lalibela

Question 25

Which trade route is depicted in blue?

Accepted Answer

The Indian Ocean Trade Network

Question 26

On which coast of Africa can the Swahili coast be found?

Accepted Answer

East

Question 27

King Lalibela sought to build a new Jerusalem in Ancient Ethiopia

Accepted Answer

True

Question 28

What religion spread to West Africa via the trans-Saharan trade?

Accepted Answer

Islam

Question 29

Areas of East and Northern Africa were important early centers of Christianity

Accepted Answer

True

Question 30

What is the name for African grasslands?

Accepted Answer

savanna

Question 31

What religion was practiced heavily in the Kingdom of Axum?

Accepted Answer

Christianity

Question 32

What religion spread to NW Africa through the trans-Saharan trade?

Accepted Answer

Islam

Question 33

Term for a city that functions independently and controls its surrounding territory.

Accepted Answer

city-state

Question 34

The city-state of Kilwa became powerful based on it's control of trade on this body of water:

Accepted Answer

Indian Ocean

Question 35

In which modern day nation were Axum and Lalibela both located?

Accepted Answer

Ethiopia

Question 36

From this map and your brain: which trade route/network extended farther south?

Accepted Answer

Indian Ocean

Question 37

One reason the ancient kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai prospered was that they

Accepted Answer

controlled the trade of gold and salt.

Question 38

Which African trade kingdom was known for its construction of large obelisks called "steles?"

Accepted Answer

Aksum

Question 39

Name for the keeps of West African oral history.

Accepted Answer

Griots

Question 40

Which W African leader defeated an evil king, founded Mali, and is known as the Lion King.

Accepted Answer

Sundiata

African Trade Kingdoms and Major Medieval Trade Routes Review

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African Trade Kingdoms and Major Medieval Trade Routes Review

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