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- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The region of Africa with open grasslands and scattered trees is theSaharaSahelSavannaRainforest
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The main river that the Ghana empire started around:NileNigerVoltaTigris
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.How did Ghana profit from outsiders?Capturing slavesFinding gold minesTaxing tradeSelling fish
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What brought Islam to West Africa?WarTradeEmporersCrusades - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Who was Mansa Musa?First Emperor of SonghaiMoroccan Muslim TravelerGreatest Ruler of MaliGriot
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Taghaza in North Africa was known for its deposits of what substance?saltgoldironore
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Mansa Musa is most famous for..?converting to Christianitymaking a pilgrimage to Meccaruling Songhainot being an efficient leader
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Ghana grew very rich after they took over the ___________ trade routes.trans-saharansilk roadsub-saharaneuropean
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Salt was a biologically important mineral found where in Africa?Northern Sahara desertthe rainforestZimbabwethe sahel
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which kingdom broke free from Mali, created an Islamic empire, and then conquered Mali?SonghaiGhanaEgyptMali
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.African villages were made up ofmultiple familiesone extended familymany small townspeople only of the same religion
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.West African empires were in a perfect spot to trade because they were in between 2 important natural resources:silver and diamondssilver and goldgold and ricegold and salt
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.A semi-dry strip of land in Africa that divided the desert from wetter lands to the southSaharaSahelSavannaRainforest
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The Muslim leader of Mali who supported education, spread Islam, and made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca was
Sundiata
Mansa Musa
Askia the Great
Sunni Ali
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The three West African empires controlled the salt and gold trade (otherwise known as the Trans-Saharan Caravan Trade), which made them very wealthy.TrueFalse
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The rulers of Ghana taxed their citizens and banned common people from owninggoldgold dustgold nuggetsdinosaurs