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Module 12 Lesson 4
Practice Assesment: Social Studies 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| When Muslims started ruling Egypt, what did they enter? | They entered the Maghrib, the part of North Africa that is today the Mediterranean coast of Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. |
| In Islam, following a law is a what? | A Religious Obligation, Muslims do not separate their personal life from their religious life, and Islamic law regulates almost all areas of human life. |
| Muslim reformers founded what in the 11th century? | The Almoravid Empire, which members came from a Berber group living in the western Sahara in what is today Mauritania. |
| What did the Almohads seize from the Almoravid s? | They seized power from the Almoravids. The Almohads began as a religious movement in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. |
| What did Beber Nomads use to travel in the third century? | Camels which could plod steadily over much longer distances, covering as much as 60 miles in a day. In addition, it could travel more than ten days without water. |
| How did Miners collect gold and where? | Miners dug gold from shafts as deep as 100 feet or sifted it from fast-moving streams. |
| Because Ghana’s king controlled trade and commanded a large army, what could he do? | He could demand taxes and gifts from the chiefs of surrounding lands. As long as the chiefs made their payments, the king left them in peace to rule their own people. |
| What was the king of Ghana, considered as? | In all of Ghana, the king was considered the supreme ruler. An administrative class helped the king run the government. |
| What did Islam spread through, while Islam spread through North Africa by conquest, south of the Sahara? | Islam Spread through trade, Muslim merchants and teachers settled in the states south of the Sahara and introduced their faith there. |
| What were Songhai's two rulers? | One was Sunni Ali, who built a vast empire by military conquest. Sunni Ali’s rule began in 1464 and lasted almost 30 years. |
| What did Sunni Ali's son face because he did not practice their religion faithfully? | The son faced a major revolt by Muslims who were angry that he did not practice their religion faithfully. |
| What was the Hausa, and how dd they first emerge? | The Hausa were a group of people named after the language they spoke. The city-states of the Hausa people first emerged between the years 1000 and 1200 in the savanna area east of Mali and Songhai in what is today northern Nigeria. |
| What did the Yoruba speaking people belong to? | They belonged to a number of small city-states in the forests on the southern edge of the savanna in what is today Benin and southwestern Nigeria. |
| How did the oba named Ewuare make Benin into a major West African state? | He made Benin into a major West African State, by building a powerful army. He used it to control an area that by 1500 stretched from the Niger River delta in the east to what is today Lagos, Nigeria. |
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