Vocab
different jobs and skills in a society
What is labor specialization?
The Kingdom of Ghana had complete control over these two traded goods
What is salt and gold?
Mansa Munsa went on this to show off his wealth and faithfulness to Islam
What is a hajj/ pilgrimage
Who started the Songhai Empire?
What is the order of the three empires
What is Ghana-Mali - Songhai
A general rise in prices
What is inflation?
Which trade good was in the highest in demand because it is necessary for health
What is salt?
Timbuktu in Mali was famous for being a center of what learning
What is Islamic Learning?
What important city was taken over by Sunni Ali Ber?
* This city was important to Mansa Musa
What is Timbuktu
This founder of Mali who defeated Sumonguru
Who is Sundiata?
Area that the transition between desert and forest
What is Sahel
This Islamic group ended the Ghana empire
Who are the Almoravids?
Sundiata restored trade by recapturing the region that produced this resource
What is the gold-producing region?
This person conquered more land as the King of Songhai
Who is Askia Muhammad
What is the Sahara
formal study and learning
What is scholarship?
What is oral history/ griot?
This explorer was famous for making a journey throughout the Islamic empire
who is Ibn Battuta
What religion was Askia Muhammad?
What is Islam?
Mansa Musa bankrupted this city in Egypt
What is Cairo?
grasslands with scattered trees
What is the Savannah?
The King of Ghana had to control this resource to ensure its value stayed high
What is the gold supply?
Mali differed from Ghana by adopting this religion
What is Islam
What city was sieged for 7 days.
What is Djenne
The Iron working of the Soninke allowed for this to be more effective
What is farming and conquering