AFRICAN CIVILIZATIONS QUIZ
Name:
1. This process continues today, drying out thousands of acres of the Sahara each year.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Dehydration
Desertification
Precipitation
Anticipation
2. The dry grasslands just south of the Sahara comprise a region called the:
A. Kush
B. Sahel
C. Savanna
D. Great Zimbabwe
3. The root language shared by West Africans is
A. Arabic
B. Bantu
C. Swahili
D. Indo-European
4. What two products dominated trade in West Africa?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Copper and gold
Salt and pepper
Gold and salt
Gold and iron
5. How did Mansa Musa make others aware of West Africa’s great power and wealth?
A. By conquering them
B. By paying tribute to them
C. By completing the hajj to Mecca
D. By sending ambassadors
6. The city of Meroe in Kush was famous for
A. salt
B. iron
C. gold
D. silk
7. The center of learning in Sub-Sahara Africa in the 1300’s-1400’s was
A.
B.
C.
D.
Alexandria
Great Zimbabwe
Mogadishu
Timbucktu
8. Griots of West Africa preserved
A.
B.
C.
D.
Stories in the oral tradition
The tribes written records
The religious traditions
Sacred objects and icons
9. A deep trench formed by the Earth’s crust dropping between plate boundaries is called
A. a veld B. a rift valley C. the Sahel
D. a savanna
10. Which African kingdom conquered part of Egypt and copied parts of its culture?
A. Aksum
B. Great Zimbabwe C. Kush
D. Songhai
Please use the map on the next page to answer the following questions:
11. Figure A on the map refers to the ancient civilization of
A.
B.
C.
D.
Kush
Ghana
Mali
Aksum
12. What is the body of water marked with figure B?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Black Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Red Sea
Baltic Sea
13. The geographic region marked by figure E is
A. desert
B. grasslands
C. mountains
D. rain forest
14. The civilization marked by figure D is
A.
B.
C.
D.
Aksum
Kush
Ghana
Great Zimbabwe
15. Figure C marks the location of
A.
B.
C.
D.
Egypt
Timbuktu
Aksum
Great Zimbabwe
E.
B.
A.
D
C.