1. What was the most direct result of West African farmers producing a surplus of food using iron tools?
- A. A decrease in the value of farmland.
- B. An increase in the region's population.
- C. A complete stop to all trade activities.
- D. A return to hunting and gathering.
2. What new opportunity arose for some people in West Africa once a food surplus was established?
- A. They could pursue jobs other than farming.
- B. They all became rulers of the community.
- C. They had to work longer hours on the farms.
- D. They were required to leave their villages.
3. How did labor specialization contribute to making West African societies more powerful?
- A. It created widespread conflict between farmers and craftspeople.
- B. It made societies less organized by creating too many different jobs.
- C. It led to the development of government and leadership roles.
- D. It caused a decline in the overall production of food.
4. How did the introduction of iron tools change farming practices in early West African societies?
- A. It made farming more difficult because the new tools were too heavy to use.
- B. It allowed farmers to clear land more easily and cultivate the soil more effectively.
- C. It caused people to abandon farming in favor of hunting with iron weapons.
- D. It had no significant impact on agriculture, as stone tools were still preferred.
5. The term 'labor specialization' refers to a situation where...
- A. everyone in a community performs the same type of work, mainly farming.
- B. people focus on specific jobs like crafting, trading, or leading instead of everyone farming.
- C. all difficult labor is assigned to a single group of people within the society.
- D. workers are forced to move to new regions to find employment opportunities.
6. What was the main source of the Ghana Empire's great wealth?
- A. Selling fish from the Niger River.
- B. Farming crops on the savanna.
- C. Taxing the trade caravans.
- D. Manufacturing iron weapons.
7. The trans-Saharan trade network was largely based on an exchange between which two key items?
- A. Gold and salt
- B. Iron and wood
- C. Spices and ivory
- D. Horses and cloth
8. Which statement best describes the Ghana Empire's role in the gold-salt trade?
- A. It organized armed expeditions to seize all the gold mines for its exclusive use.
- B. It profited by controlling the trade routes and taxing the goods.
- C. It focused only on agriculture and avoided participating in trade.
- D. It was the primary producer of both gold and salt.
9. Traders were willing to pay taxes to Ghana's rulers primarily in exchange for what?
- A. The right to settle in Ghana's cities.
- B. A share of the gold from the mines.
- C. Safe passage through the territory.
- D. The right to use the empire's camels for transport.
10. The economic imbalance between West Africa and the Sahara that fueled trade was based on West Africa having rich gold mines but lacking...
- A. water.
- B. salt.
- C. farmland.
- D. iron.