What was one important achievement created by Mansa Musa?

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Quiz- Chapter 15 s.2

Quiz- Chapter 15 section 2-West African Civilizations

Question	Answer
Which religion did the Ghana kings convert too?	Islam
What were the most important goods traded in Ghana?	gold and salt
A type of government in which the ruler was the religious,military, and political leader?	an autocracy
Which Western African kingdom became an empire by 800 AD?	Ghana
When the Ghana empire fell which North Africa group conquered them?	the Almoravids
Which new Western African kingdom began in 1235 AD with it's wealth and power also based on gold trade?	Mali
Who was Mali's first emperor?	Sundiata
This Mali ruler made the empire twice the size of the old empire of Ghana and named governors to head several provinces.	Mansa Musa
What was one important achievement created by Mansa Musa?	making the city of Timbuktu a leading center of Muslim learning.
After Mali declined,what was the next Western African trading empire that took over in the 1400's?	Songhai
Why did Songhai rise to power as a successful trading empire?	strong leadership
Who were Songhai's two greatest rulers?	Sunni Ali and Askia Muhammmad
Why did the Songhai Empire fall?	they lacked the modern weapons to defend themselves
What other type of government developed in West Africa?	city-states
Which Western African group of people lived in the region that is now northern Nigeria, arose between 1000 and 1200AD,their rulers depended on farmers' crops, and relied on trade goods such as salt,grain, and cotton cloth.	Hausa
Which Western African group of people developed in what is now Benin and south westwern Nigeria, created city-states, and believed their kings were gods?	Yoruba
Which Western African kingdom arose in the 1200's,was located in the forest near the delta of the Niger River,became very powerful, and developed a palace that contained many works of art?	Benin
What was important about the Benin kingdom?	it was the first African kingdom to be affected by European trade and involvement
What limited trade in Northern and Western Africa early on?	the Sahara Desert
What did the Berbers use to increase trade in this most difficult of climate's?	camels
Why did the rulers of the kingdom of Ghana grow rich?	they taxed the goods that traders carried through their land.
He was a devout Muslim,who was one of Mansa Musa's successors that traveled to most of the countries in the Islamic world	Ibn Battutu

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