Africa Unit Exam Review

1. Africa Unit Exam Review • Teams of 8 • 10-30 seconds to answer each question • Use your notes and handouts to help chose the correct answer • Discuss in your group, but talk at a very low level so the other teams cannot hear your answers • One person writes the answer (the number) on the whiteboard and will stand up to show it • All teams show whiteboard at the same time • New group member writes the answer after each question • The wining group will get a raffle ticket for each member!!!!!!

2. 2. Which type of land are you most likely to encounter if you travel across northern Africa? • rain forest • savannah • desert • tundra

3. 4. The Tiber River is to Rome as the ________ River is to West Africa. • Congo • Mississippi • Nile • Niger

4. 1. What are the major vegetation zones of West Africa? • desert, farmland, swamps, savannah • desert, sahel, savannah, rain forest • forest, mountains, desert, valleys • rivers, forest, desert, oceans

5. 6. What information does the map show? • Trans-Saharan trade in Africa • Rain forests in the Middle East • Vegetation zones in Africa • Growth of Islam in Africa

6. 8. Why does Africa have such a great variety of geographic features? • Africa covers a small area of land. • Africa covers a very large area so there are many types of land within it. • The climate of Africa is unstable. • The climate of the region never changes.

7. 3. What is the importance of the Niger River in West Africa • It was a source of water, rich soil, & trade • It was a source of ocean water. • It was a watering hole for animals. • It was not a meaningful river.

8. 9. Which animal helped to make trade across the Sahara desert possible? • horses • elephants • mules • camels

9. 7. Looking at the map, what bodies of water surround southern Africa? • Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean • Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean • Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean • Red Sea and Indian Ocean

10. 5. What is the meaning of the term “trans-Sahara”? • across the Sahara desert • away from the Sahara desert • around the Sahara desert • under the Sahara desert

11. 14. The map primarily shows contact from who? • explorers who were mapping Central Africa. • North African traders who crossed the Sahara desert into West Africa. • Christian missionaries from the Middle East. • barbarians invading from the Roman Empire.

12. 11. What was salt used for in West Africa? • as a fertilizer for crops • religious ceremonies • to season and preserve food • as a symbol of wealth

13. 12. How did the people of Ghana increased the value of the gold they traded? • destroying gold to keep the supply low. • showing everyone the sources of the gold. • making more gold when supplies ran low. • keeping the source of gold a secret.

14. 13. What did the kings of Ghana do to gain power • gain control of the valuable trade routes • own more camels than other states • form alliances with other groups of people • build the strongest wall in all of Africa.

15. 21. Which language did West Africans adopt to serve as their written language? • Arabic • English • Islamic • Spanish

16. 23. What does this picture show about West African culture? • the spread of Latin as a written language • the influence of traditional West African griotstorytelling • the influence of Islam and the growth of Arabic as a written language • the rise of Christianity in Africa

17. 19. How did Mansa Musa’s travels affect the development of the Mali Empire? • He ended slavery in Mali. • He gave away all of the empire’s gold. • He attracted scholars to Timbuktu, which increased cultural growth and trade. • He forced people to pray in mosques.

18. 16. What did the kings of Ghana do to gain wealth? • convert to Islam • sell salt • tax trade within their empire • trade camels

19. 17. What religion was brought to Africa as a result of new trade and cultural exchanges? • Christianity • Islam • Animism • Buddhism

20. 10. Which mineral resources were most valuable to traders in Africa? • granite and coal • salt and gold • iron and diamonds • oil and silver

21. 25. How did Islam influence Ghana and Mali rulers? • Islam’s use of storytelling helped Muslims gain power in the government. • Incorporation of Shar’iah, Islamic laws gave rulers more power. • Islam’s lack of laws allowed rulers to do whatever they wanted • Islam’s many laws kept the rulers weak.

22. 18. How did the Berber traders influence life in Ghana? • They introduced written language, Arabic. • They introduced Islam to Ghana. • They brought the salt trade to Ghana. • All of the above

23. 15. Looking at the map, which city, along the Niger river, was a major trade and cultural center of Ghana and Mali? • Marrakesh • Saleh • Songhai • Timbuktu

24. 20. Which of the following is NOT a way that Mansa Musa spread Islam and education throughout Mali? • He stressed the importance of reading and writing in Arabic • He hired architects and artists from other empires to build mosques. • He sent scholars to study in Morocco and then set up schools in Mali. • He forced everyone to convert to Islam.

25. 22. Which of the following is an example of how West Africans combined their traditional beliefs with Islam • They became monotheistic, but continued to use amulets. • They refused to pray five times a day. • They continued to be polytheistic, but stopped ancestor worship. • They refused to read the Qur’an.

26. 24. What does this text show? West Africans built mosques that blended Islamic architectural style with their own traditional art. • Islamic architecture over-powered traditional West African culture. • Islamic architecture was more attractive than West African architecture. • West Africans combined Islamic culture into their own traditional culture. • West African totally resisted Islamic culture.