Unit 5 Quiz

Which group built terraces on the mountainsides to increase agricultural production?

Bantu and Arabic mixed to form which African language?

This socialist group used family groups called ayllu to build a massive road system

In Africa, people lived in extended family groups called

Mansa Musa aided in the development of Mali by building mosques in Timbuktu, attracting _____

Who REestablished the gold-salt trade, bringing power to Mali, and established a bureaucracy

In Africa, what was used to pass down history?

Who believed that a god would appear as a bird on a cactus attacking a snake?

This group a had a cyclical calendar

What was used to pass along a community's history in the absence of written language?

What major advantage did the Moroccans have that contributed to them overthrowing the Songhai?

What animal was very important to the Incas?

What is the unifying/combining of religions?

The center of learning in the Mali Empire was

The _____ people migrated from Western Africa to the East and South

Who lived at 8,000-15,000 feet elevation?

This group thought their sun god needed human blood for energy to rise in the morning.

Who built the extensive, 14,000 mile, road system?

What did Mansa Musa bring to increase knowledge in Mali?

belief that spirits are alive in animals, plants, and other natural forces

As a result of trade & migration across Africa, new religious ideas like Christianity and Islam

What did Mansa Musa do as a custom to his Islamic faith?

belief that spirits are present in animals, plants, and other natural forces

Who introduced the teachings of the Qur'an in Africa?

1st of the great sub-Saharan trading states to emerge in West Africa was

The migration of ______ unified Africa through the spread of a common language

Trans- Saharan networks were never regualr until the introduction of this animal

What city was the center of learning in the West African Kingdom of Mali?

Mayan and Olmec cultures worshiped this animal because they saw it as a "shaman"

Why did African trade routes shift east several times?

Desert roughly the size of the USA

African storytellers that passed down history were called

Rulers in Ghana grew rich by

What river was important to the West African kingdoms?

what were the floating gardens built by the Aztecs called?

The strength and wealth of  Ghana, Mali, and Songhai depended on