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Axum was located in |
Eastern Africa |
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King Ezana |
converted the people of Axum to Christianity |
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Axum also had some |
Judaism |
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What were some positives of Axums geography |
Good location A land trade route |
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Ghana was located in |
Northwest Africa |
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Ghana was |
The earliest kingdom in Africa |
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Land of gold- traded it for salt |
Ghana |
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Tax camel caravans as they enter and leave |
Ghana |
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Mali was located in |
Northwest Africa |
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Had a lot of gold that they traded for salt |
Mali |
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Mansa Musa |
Converted the people of Mali to Islam |
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Songhai was located in |
Northwest Africa |
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Traded gold for salt |
Songhai |
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Had Timbuktu before it fell |
Songhai |
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Sonni Ali |
Great Muslim leader from Songhai |
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Conquered by Europeans |
Songhai |
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Great Zimbabwe was located in |
South Africa |
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Songhai was |
The largest kingdom of Africa |
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They have no written records |
Great Zimbabwe |
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Built big stone walls to keep out invaders and the tse tse fly |
Great Zimbabwe |
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Griots |
Traveling oral historians and story tellers |
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Swahili |
Mix of traditional African culture and Muslim culture |
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Desertification |
Spread of the dessert |
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Matrilineal |
Inheritance and lineage through mothers side |
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Patrilineal |
Inheritance and lineage through fathers side |
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Kente cloth |
Tribal history on cloth |
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Animism |
Religious beliefs based on nature spirits |
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Timbuktu |
Capital of Mali (had a golden age) |
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Gold- Salt trade |
Salt from north for gold from west, carried by camel caravans |
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Positives of Mediterranean |
good for farming |
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Negatives of Mediterranean |
Isolated and small |
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Positives of the Sahara dessert |
Trade Natural barriers Natural resources |
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Negatives of the Sahara dessert |
Hard to farm Too dry Desertification ( dessert keeps expanding) |
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Positives of a savanna |
Good for herding animals |
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Negatives of the savanna |
Subsistence farming- only enough to survive Tse tse fly |
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Positives of the jungle/ rain forest |
Slash and burn farming Trade goods |
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Negatives of the jungle/ rain forest |
Hard to travel |
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_ was traded equally for _ over the _ dessert |
Gold Salt Sahara |
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The religion of _ came from the Middle East through cultural diffusion and trade |
Islam |
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The greatest African trading city was _ |
Timbuktu |
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Other products they traded besides salt and gold |
Ivory Diamonds Oil Copper Animal skins Crops |
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Mansa Musa went on a _ to Mecca. He threw _ around to the people and converted North Africa to the religion of _ |
Hajj Gold Islam |
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King Ezana of Axum converted Axum to _ a monotheistic religion from Europe |
Christianity |
