Chapter 13 Vocabulary Test 8th World History
  • 1. - The “Lion Prince” who ruled from 1230 to 1255 and he seized the capital of Ghana in 1240.
A) Sundiata Keita
B) Sunni Ali
C) Mansa Musa
D) Griot
E) Plateau
  • 2. - Mali’s last strong king who died in 1337.
A) Sunni Ali
B) Plateau
C) Mansa Musa
D) Sundiata Keita
E) Griot
  • 3. - The leader of Songhai who in 1468 stormed in Timbuktu and drove out the Berbers.
A) Sundiata Keita
B) Griot
C) Mansa Musa
D) Sunni Ali
E) Plateau
  • 4. - An area of high flat land.
A) Plateau
B) Griot
C) Sundiata Keita
D) Sunni Ali
E) Mansa Musa
  • 5. - Story-tellers.
A) Plateau
B) Griot
C) Sunni Ali
D) Sundiata Keita
E) Mansa Musa
  • 6. - The sails powered sailboats.
A) Ibn Battuta
B) Olaudah Equiano
C) Dhow
D) Clan
E) Askia Muhammad
  • 7. - A member of the Igbo who disagreed that Africans did not have a religion.
A) Askia Muhammad
B) Dhow
C) Clan
D) Olaudah Equiano
E) Ibn Battuta
  • 8. - A young Arab lawyer from Morocco.
A) Dhow
B) Ibn Battuta
C) Olaudah Equiano
D) Askia Muhammad
E) Clan
  • 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) Olaudah Equiano
B) Ibn Battuta
C) Dhow
D) Askia Muhammad
E) Clan
  • 10. - A group of people descended from the same ancestor.
A) Olaudah Equiano
B) Ibn Battuta
C) Askia Muhammad
D) Dhow
E) Clan
  • 11. - Leader
A) Nzinga
B) Dahia al-Kahina
C) Sultan
D) Extended Family
E) Swahili
  • 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) Dahia al-Kahina
C) Nzinga
D) Extended Family
E) Sultan
  • 13. - The queen who led the fight against the Muslim invasion of her kingdom.
A) Swahili
B) Nzinga
C) Extended Family
D) Dahia al-Kahina
E) Sultan
  • 14. - Another woman ruler who ruled lands in what is now Angola and Congo.
A) Extended Family
B) Swahili
C) Dahia al-Kahina
D) Sultan
E) Nzinga
  • 15. - Families made up of several generations.
A) Dahia al-Kahina
B) Nzinga
C) Sultan
D) Extended Family
E) Swahili
  • 16. - What many villages were, especially Bantu villages. They traced their descent through mothers rather than fathers.
A) Swahili
B) Nzinga
C) Matrilineal
D) Dahia al-Kahina
E) Sultan
  • 17. - The stories passed down from generation to generation.
A) Dahia al-Kahina
B) Swahili
C) Oral History
D) Sultan
E) Nzinga
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