The Mali Empire

9.Match each person with the correct description.

10.Put the following events in the correct chronological order.

11.Which of the following statements about the Mali Empire are supported by the evidence? (select all that apply)

12.Match each term with its correct definition.

13.Put these events from the history of the Mali Empire into the correct chronological order, from earliest to latest.

14.Which of the following were consequences of Mansa Musa's pilgrimage to Mecca? (select all that apply)

15.The Mali Empire was founded by Sundiata Keita in c. 1235.

16.What was the main source of Mali's wealth?

17.Which of the following best describes Timbuktu during the Mali Empire?

18.Which of the following were factors in the decline of the Mali Empire? (select all that apply)

19.Why did the Mali Empire begin to develop during the 11th and 12th centuries?

20.Which statement best explains why Sundiata Keita was called upon to lead the Mandinka?

21.Which of the following best explains why Mansa Musa's pilgrimage to Mecca caused significant inflation in Egypt?

22.The death of Suleyman marked the end of Mali's Golden Age and the beginning of a slow decline.

23.Which of the following were consequences of the decline of the Mali Empire? (select all that apply)

24.Match each cause with its correct consequence in the history of the Mali Empire.

25.Put the following events in the correct chronological order, from earliest to latest.

26.A historian studying the Mali Empire at its height reads this extract: "His information about the empire came from visiting Malians taking the hajj, or pilgrim's voyage to Mecca. He had first-hand information from several sources, and from a second-hand source he learned of the visit of Mansa Musa." Which statement about the writer of this account is best supported by the extract?

27.A historian writes: "The traveller Ibn Battuta, who visited Mali in 1352, left the first account of a West African kingdom made directly by an eyewitness; the others are usually second-hand." Why is Ibn Battuta's account especially valuable to historians of Mali?

28.A historian lists the main written sources for the Mali Empire: a 14th-century Tunisian historian, a 14th-century Moroccan traveller who visited Mali, a 16th-century Andalusian traveller, and an account written in about 1340 by a geographer-administrator in Mamluk Egypt. Which of the following statements about these sources are supported by this information? (select all that apply)

29.The main written sources for the Mali Empire include accounts by Arab and North African writers as well as Mandinka oral tradition recorded by griots.

30.Put these written sources about the Mali Empire into the correct chronological order, from earliest to latest.

31.A historian notes that after Ibn Khaldun's death in 1406 there are no further Arab primary sources except Leo Africanus, and that Arab interest in Mali declined after the Songhai conquered the northern regions that formed the main contact between Mali and the Arab world. What does this suggest about the evidence for the later period of the Mali Empire?

32.A student reads that "the history of the Mali Empire before the 13th century is unclear, as there are conflicting and imprecise accounts by both Arab chroniclers and oral traditionalists." Which of the following are reasonable conclusions from this statement? (select all that apply)

33.The extract states: "Mali, Mandé, Manden, Mande-Bissa, and Manding are all various pronunciations of the same word across different languages and dialects." What does this tell us about the name 'Mali'?

34.Medieval writers disagreed about the name 'Mali': Ibn Battuta and the 1375 Catalan Atlas treated Mali or 'Melly' as a city, Leo Africanus called the capital Melli, Ibn Fadlallah al-Umari gave Mali as the name of the capital province, and Ibn Khaldun referred to Mali as a people. Which conclusions are supported by this evidence? (select all that apply)

35.A historian explains that "whether Mali originated as the name of a town or region, the name was subsequently applied to the entire empire ruled from Mali." What does this tell us about how the empire got its name?

36.A hypothesis claims that the name Mali comes from Mandé mali, meaning 'hippopotamus', an animal of special significance to the Keitas, and that Mandé means 'little manatee'. A legend says that Sunjata transformed into a hippopotamus. However, these hypotheses have been rejected by locals and are inconsistent with the apparent cognate status of Mali and Mandé. Which of the following best describes the status of this hypothesis?

37.In which region was the Mali Empire centred?

38.Who was the king of the Sosso Empire that Sundiata Keita was called upon to defeat?

39.Mansa Musa took the throne of Mali in about 1312.

40.Which ruler was deposed by his uncle Suleyman in 1341?

41.What was the name of the constitution of the Mali Empire?

42.In what year did Mansa Musa's pilgrimage to Mecca begin?

43.Complete the sentence about the decline of the Mali Empire.

44.Complete the sentence about the Mali Empire.

45.What was the title used by the rulers of Mali after the death of Sundiata Keita?

46.In which year did Mansa Musa begin his pilgrimage to Mecca?

47.In which year did Sakura, a former slave who had risen to the rank of general, carry out a military coup?

48.In which year did Mansa Musa's pilgrimage to Mecca end?

49.Complete the sentence about the Mali Empire's origins.

50.What is the name of the constitution of the Mali Empire?

51.In what year did Sundiata Keita's forces conquer Sosso, marking the emergence of Mali as a major power?

52.Complete the sentence about the end of the Mali Empire.

53.Explain how Mansa Musa's pilgrimage to Mecca affected Egypt.

54.Explain how the trans-Saharan trade contributed to the rise of the Mali Empire.

55.Explain how the decline of the Ghana Empire contributed to the rise of the Mali Empire.

56.Explain how the trans-Saharan trade in gold and salt contributed to the rise of the Mali Empire.

57.A historian writes: "While the accounts are of limited length, they provide a fairly good picture of the empire at its height." Explain how useful the written accounts of Arab and North African writers are for studying the Mali Empire.

58.In what year did Mansa Musa's pilgrimage to Mecca begin?

59.In which year did Mansa Musa begin his pilgrimage to Mecca?

60.In which year did Sakura, a former slave who had risen to the rank of general, carry out a military coup?

61.In which year did Mansa Musa's pilgrimage to Mecca end?

62.In what year did Sundiata Keita's forces conquer Sosso, marking the emergence of Mali as a major power?