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24 Cards in this Set
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plateau
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an area of high flat land
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Benue River
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a river near the Niger that the Bantu originated on
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Ghana
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the first empire to develop in Africa with rich rulers and was a center for trade
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Mali
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quickly replaced Ghana. It was a center for gold and salt trade and spread from the Atlantic coast to Timbuktu
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Timbuktu
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a center for Islam learning and a trading city in Mali
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griots
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West African storytellers
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Sundiata Keita
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a great warrior king known as "The Lion Prince" who seized Ghana and worked his way from the Atlantic to Timbuktu
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Mansa Musa
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Mali's last strong king who died in 1337 and his death caused the empire's decline
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Sunni Ali
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The Songhai leader who stormed into Timbuktu, drove out the Berbers, began a campaign of conquest, utilized Songhai's location on the Niger River, ordered a fleet of war canoes to seize control of the river trade and whose armies swept into the Sahara and seized the Berber salt mines.
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Songhai
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an empire headed by Sunni Ali
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Axum
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The center of Ethiopia's power where goods flowed in from the Red Sea from the Mediterranean and East Asian worlds
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dhows
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a sailboat powered by wind-catching, triangular sails
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Olaudah Equiano
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a member of the Igbo who agreed that agreed that the Africans did not have a religion and wrote that "believe that there is one Creator of all things and that he... governs events, especially for our deaths and captivity."
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Ibn Battuta
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a young Arab lawyer from Morocco who set out to see the Muslim world and studied West African Muslims
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Makkah
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where Mansa Musa went to his pilgrimage and where he tried to let everyone know that he was leader of a great empire
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Askia Muhammad
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He built the largest empire in medieval West Africa, kept local courts in place but also told them to honor Muslim laws and made Timbuktu an important center for Islamic culture.
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sultan
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a leader of an East African Muslim tribe
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Swahili
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the language spoken in Swahili which means people of the coast
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clan
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a group of people descended from the same ancestor
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extended families
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families made up of several generations
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matrilineal
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tracing a descent through their mothers rather then than their fathers
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oral history
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stories passed down by word of mouth from generation to generation
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Dalia al-Kahina
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a Queen who lead the fight against the Muslim invasion of her kingdom, which was located about where Mauritana is today
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Nzinga
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a Queen who ruled lands in Angola and Congo and spent almost 40 years battling Portugese slave traders in an effort to stop them from enslaving her people and exporting them to America
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