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Sunni Ali Ber was given this nickname.
What is "Ali the Great"?
The number of empires that ruled from 800-1600.
What is the number three?
The religion that Askia Muhammad was devoted to.
What is Islam?
The language that Songhai laws were written in, as well as the Qur'an.
What is the Arabic language?
Two rulers of the Songhai Empire.
Who are Askia Muhammad and Sunni Ali Ber?
Sunni Ali Ber conquered these two main cities.
What are Timbuktu and Djenne?
A river that runs through the Songhai Empire.
What is the Niger River?
This person appointed Islamic judges to enforce laws.
Who was Askia Muhammad?
What city was the capital of the Muslim Kingdom of Songhai?
What was the city of Gao?
The Songhai Empire dominated the trans-Sahara trading routes with the capture of what city?
What was the city of Djenne?
Askia Muhammad conquered these people, who lived south of Songhai.
Who were the Mossi people?
The empire that ruled from 1200-1450.
What is the Mali Empire?
The number of years, months, and days that Djenne survived while being circled.
What is 7 years, 7 months, and 7 days?
They copied these to make new Arabic books.
What are old manuscripts?
This country invaded Songhai in 1591.
What is the country of Morocco?
Sunni Ali Ber died in this African river.
What is the Niger River?
The empire that ruled from 1450-1600.
What is the Songhai Empire?
When was 1464?
What is the Mossi kingdom?
The things that made Songhai wealthy.
What are gold and salt?
The country the Songhai kingdom is of.
What is Sudan?
The empire that ruled from 1000-1200.
What is no definite empire?
The number of gold pieces Askia Muhammad took.
What is 300,000 pieces of gold?
This mosque was a center of learning in Timbuktu.
What was the Sankore Mosque?
What group of raiders did Songhai defeat to capture Timbuktu?
What were the Tuaregs?