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Mansa Musa
vocab
100

Name the two major rivers in Africa

What are the Nile and the Niger

100
Timbuktu was the trader center of this empire
What is Mali
100
Name the two types of animal products traded in Ghana
What are ivory and ostrich feathers
100
Mansa Musa was the great leader of this empire
What is Mali
100
Large independent area that has its own government, ruler, military, religion, and economy
What is a city-state
200
What are the two Oceans that border Africa
What are the Atlantic and the Indian
200
This empire traded iron, animal products and gold
What is Ghana
200
What two things did the Songhai empire trade
What are salt and gold
200
Mansa Musa was a member of this religion
What is Islam
200
group of independent villages that get together and are led by a local ruler
What is clan
300
Grassland with small trees and shrubs
What is a savanna
300

The Niger River gave this empire rich soil to grow crops

What is the Songhai

300
Swahili means this
What is "people from the coast" or "coasters"
300
He took a pilgrimage to Mecca called a
What is hajj
300
this is trade where people do not speak, but rather agree on a price by leaving money and goods
What is silent barter
400
a fertile spot in the desert where water is found
What is an oasis
400
This empire had the first ruler to convert to Islam
What is Songhai
400
True or false, Swahili was an empire
What is False, it was a trade region
400
Along the way he gave away this to the poor
What is gold
400
when a group moves from one place and settles in another
What is migration
500
Large desert in the northern part of Africa
What is the Sahara
500
This was the FIRST great trade empire
What is Ghana
500
Swahili is a mixture of these two languages
What are Arabic and Bantu
500
He gave away so much gold, it lost its value in this city of Egypt
What is Cairo
500
when a caravan travels across the Sahara it is called this type of trip
What is trans-Saharan