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The European name for Africa
Another name for the kingdom of Kush
What is Nubia?
A scholarly nickname for Ghana
The place Ibn Batutta did NOT visit
What is Europe?
The ocean that borders Africa on the east
What is the Indian Ocean?
What is the Rihlah?
The reason the history of western Africa in the 1300's is called "the century of Musa?"
What is Mansa Musa's long and successful reign?
The people who raided Ghana.
Who are the Berber's?
A semi-dry rolling plain south of the Sahara
What is the Sahel?
This contributed most to Aksum's power
What is trade?
The reason we remember Ibn Batutta?
What is his book about his travels?
The secret to Ghana's success
What is its location in the middle of trade routes?
What are ideas, culture, and religion?
The uncommon use for salt in northern Africa
What is construction of buildings?
The reason Kush's war with Aksum was so brutal
What is the destruction of the Kingdom of Kush?
The value of salt
What is its rarity?
The way Askia Muhammad differed from Sonni Ali Ber and other Kings
What is his devotion of Islam?
What is the Songhai Empire?
The reason Sundiata was called "The Hungering Lion"
What were his courage in battle and his determination to walk?
The reason Sumanguru didn't killed Sundiata
What was Sundiata's crippled state?
The three things Timbuktu was famous for
What are universities, mosques, and libraries?
The three qualities of camels that helped them survive in the desert.
What are
1. broad, splayed feet
2. hump for storing fat
3. double row of eyelashes
Three important rivers in Africa
What are the Nile, Congo, and Niger Rivers
The reason Mansa Musa made a pilgrimage to Mecca
What is one of the five pillars: the hajj?
The distinguishing features of the Sahara Desert
What are the hottest temperatures, the largest span, and the number of oases?