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Geography of Africa
Pg.112-115
Culture,Trade,
History,Art,
Tradition
Pg.1
Ghana
Pg.130-135
Mali
Pg.136-141
Songhai
Pg.142-146
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Sub-Saharan Africa
What is the area south of the Sahara?
100
Father,Mother,Children and other close relatives
Who are the members of the extended families?
100
Farmers who started Ghana's beginning and got its power.
Who were the Soninke
100
Sundiata.
Who was the ruler who made Mali powerful?
100
Gao
What is the capital of Songhai?
200
Rifts
What are long deep valleys formed by movements of the Earth 's crust called?
200
Belief that all natural objects have spirits.
What is animism?
200
Gold and Salt.
What were the 2 major trade goods?
200
Beans,rice,onions and other crops.
What are the main crops?
200
Berber were Muslim traders who, because of the shared religion of Islam traded with Songhai so it became powerful.
Who were the Berbers?
300
Senegal and Niger
What are the 2 major rivers west of Africa?
300
When men who had been born within the same 2 or 3 years formed special bonds.
What are age-sets?
300
Process in which people traded without contacting each other directly.
What is silent barter?
300
Mansas
What were the local leaders known as?
300
Sunni Ali was the ruler of Songhai from 1464 and he worked to unify,enlarge and strengthen the empire of Songhai.
Who was Sunni Ali?
400
Lake. Victoria
What is the Nile's source?
400
Stored water and energy for a long time in its body plus doing equivalent jobs as a horse.
Why were camels important in desert trade?
400
Governors or the defeated kings were put back to power and had to pay tribute to the king.
How was the conquered though the area impossible to rule by the king was kept in order by the king?
400
1255
What year did Sundiata die in?
400
King who defeated Sunni Baru and began to trade with Muslim lands and took the title of Askia.
Who was Askia the Great?
500
Sahel,Savannah,Sahara,Rain forest
What are the 4 major regions of Africa?
500
Timbutku
What was the camp for traders in about 1100 and then became a major city?
500
Invasion,Overgrazing and Internal Rebellion.
What are the 3 major factors for Ghana's decline?
500
1300s
What year did Mali reach the height , wealth , power and fame?
500
1528
What year did Askia lose power