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This term means grasslands
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savanna
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a triangular shaped landform made by mud and silt deposited at a rivers mouth
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delta
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a system of tracing descent through the males of the family
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patrilineal
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person who passes down customs, history, legend, art and poetry through storytelling
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griot
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on the southern border of the sahara known as "the shore of the desert"
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sahel
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a person who communicates with the spirit world
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diviner
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the relationship among family members
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kinship
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In 1235, this event marked the fall of Ghana and the end of King Sumanguru's reign while it gave rise to the kingdom of Mali
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Battle of Kirina
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honor and reverence paid to one's deceased relatives
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ancestor worship
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Mali's greatest ruler who was a devout Muslim
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Mansa Musa
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Many residents of the Sahara left the region between 5000 and 2500 B.C. because
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the climate became drier and hotter
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Nok people settled near the Niger to do all of the following EXCEPT
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work the gold mines
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Which of the following was NOT brought to West Africa by Arab traders?
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the practice of ancestor worship
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Where did most West African's live?
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in small farming villages
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The ideal crop for West Africa's wetter regions was
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rice
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The Nok people were the first West Africans to use
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iron
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What made Ghana's location good for trade?
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it was situated between the salt mines and the gold mines
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The capital city of Nok was..
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Jenne-jeno
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What were the duties of the village chief in West Africa?
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resolved disputes, acted as judges and kept order
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In Ghana, when a king died, the person named as the new king was
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the King's sister's son
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As Africans left the Sahara to find better farm land, they settled along the banks of the
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Niger River
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Less than 100 years after Ghana's defeat, the most powerful kingdom, in Africa was
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Mali
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In the 1300's European mapmakers began putting Mali on maps of Africa because of its role in
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international trade
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West Africans used different ways of farming so they could
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farm in places with different types of land or climate
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If a clan owed money to another clan, it could repay its debt by sending
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some members out to other clan as temporary slaves
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