- 1. - The “Lion Prince” who ruled from 1230 to 1255 and he seized the capital of Ghana in 1240.
A) Mansa Musa
B) Sundiata Keita
C) Griot
D) Sunni Ali
E) Plateau
- 2. - Mali’s last strong king who died in 1337.
A) Sundiata Keita
B) Sunni Ali
C) Griot
D) Plateau
E) Mansa Musa
- 3. - The leader of Songhai who in 1468 stormed in Timbuktu and drove out the Berbers.
A) Griot
B) Sundiata Keita
C) Sunni Ali
D) Mansa Musa
E) Plateau
- 4. - An area of high flat land.
A) Griot
B) Plateau
C) Mansa Musa
D) Sundiata Keita
E) Sunni Ali
A) Sundiata Keita
B) Mansa Musa
C) Griot
D) Plateau
E) Sunni Ali
- 6. - The sails powered sailboats.
A) Dhow
B) Askia Muhammad
C) Ibn Battuta
D) Clan
E) Olaudah Equiano
- 7. - A member of the Igbo who disagreed that Africans did not have a religion.
A) Askia Muhammad
B) Clan
C) Olaudah Equiano
D) Dhow
E) Ibn Battuta
- 8. - A young Arab lawyer from Morocco.
A) Olaudah Equiano
B) Clan
C) Dhow
D) Ibn Battuta
E) Askia Muhammad
- 9. - Songhai built the largest empire in medieval West Africa under him and he kept local courts in place but told them to honor Muslim laws. He also made Timbuktu an important center of Islamic culture and set up about 150 schools to teach the Quran.
A) Askia Muhammad
B) Olaudah Equiano
C) Ibn Battuta
D) Dhow
E) Clan
- 10. - A group of people descended from the same ancestor.
A) Dhow
B) Askia Muhammad
C) Clan
D) Ibn Battuta
E) Olaudah Equiano
A) Swahili
B) Dahia al-Kahina
C) Extended Family
D) Nzinga
E) Sultan
- 12. - “People of the coast” from an Arabic word, but it had come to mean the unique culture of East Africa’s coast and the language spoken there.
A) Swahili
B) Extended Family
C) Sultan
D) Dahia al-Kahina
E) Nzinga
- 13. - The queen who led the fight against the Muslim invasion of her kingdom.
A) Swahili
B) Dahia al-Kahina
C) Nzinga
D) Sultan
E) Extended Family
- 14. - Another woman ruler who ruled lands in what is now Angola and Congo.
A) Swahili
B) Dahia al-Kahina
C) Nzinga
D) Extended Family
E) Sultan
- 15. - Families made up of several generations.
A) Swahili
B) Nzinga
C) Dahia al-Kahina
D) Extended Family
E) Sultan
- 16. - What many villages were, especially Bantu villages. They traced their descent through mothers rather than fathers.
A) Swahili
B) Sultan
C) Dahia al-Kahina
D) Nzinga
E) Matrilineal
- 17. - The stories passed down from generation to generation.
A) Swahili
B) Dahia al-Kahina
C) Oral History
D) Sultan
E) Nzinga
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