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Vocabulary
100
This allowed many people to live in West Africa.
What is the Niger River?
100
Mansa Musa helped spread this religion through a large part of West Africa.
What is Islam?
100
Muslims who attacked Ghana and cut off trade routes.
Who were the Almoravids?
100
All of this produced in Ghana was the property of the king.
What is gold?
100
Short sayings of wisdom or truth.
What are proverbs?
200
The capital of Songhai.
What is Gao?
200
The storytellers of early West Africa were called this.
What are griots?
200
Mali's most famous ruler.
Who is Mansa Musa?
200
This made traders feel safer in Ghana.
What is the army?
200
A buliding for Muslim prayer.
What is a mosque?
300
A center of learning in Songhai.
What is Djenne
300
The people of early West Africa civilizations perserved their history through this.
What are oral histories?
300
He ws able to take over as ruler of Songhai in part because he was Muslim.
Who is Muhammad Ture (Askia the Great)?
300
Morocco wanted to gain control of Songhai's these.
What are salt mines?
300
A hand-woven, brightly colored fabric.
What is kente?
400
Under Asia the Great's rule, this former Mali city, became a center of education and learning.
What is Timbuktu?
400
Most West African statues were made for this.
What are religious ceremonies?
400
He is best known for bring peace and stability to Songhai.
Who is Sunni Ali?
400
Gold and this were valuable resources used as money in West Africa.
What are slabs of salt?
400
Some of the earliest people in West Africa.
Who are the Soninke?
500
Both empires lay along the upper Niger River, where there was fertile soil.
What are the Ghana and Mali empires?
500
Their statues were used in religious rituals.
What are African artistis?
500
He took power away from local chiefs and leaders, including important religious leaders, to gain more power in Mali.
Who is Sundiata?
500
This ensured that trading was peaceful and that locations of mines remained secret.
What is silent barter?
500
Empire that began its rise to power under Sundiata.
What is Mali?
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