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42 Cards in this Set
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Takshif
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desert scout
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oral history
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history passed through words and stories
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griot/jula/bard
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story tellers, keepers of history
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farin
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overlord, people who helped govern
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madrasa
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a school where send kids to learn koran
islam school |
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jihad
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holy war
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almoravids
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the muslims that had jihad on Ghana
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kafu
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community/brotherhood
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quadi
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muslim judge/court
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mansa
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king
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ghana (def and reign)
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king 300 AD-1200AD
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mali (def + reign time)
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where king resides
1235AD-1350AD |
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sudan (def)
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land of black people
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hajj
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religious pilgrimage
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malinke
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the name of the people of mali
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Islam
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religion
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caravan
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a group of people and camels (not nessacarily tho) who travel together
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desertification
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expansion of desert conditions
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who is maghan kon fatta?
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sundiata's father
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who is sassouma berete?
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maghan kon fata's fist wife, and she was mad at her husband cause he married another lady and had a son, she planed to destroy sundiata and his mother
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sogolon is?
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sudiata's mother, she is hunch backed, 2nd wife of maghan kon fatta.
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sundiata who is he...?
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considered founder of mali, he was praised by the almoravids for his willingness to convert to Islam
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who is: first son of sassouma and maghan kon fatta, he becomes mansa when his dad dies because his mommy forced it
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prins dankaran touman
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manding bory is.....
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half brother, friend and confidante to sundiata
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who is sundiata's griot
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balla fasseke
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soglon's families symbol
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buffalo
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keita's clan symbol
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lion
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wat are the languages of mali
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malinke and mande
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wat is the ethnicity of the mali people
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mandinka and mandingo
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ibn batttuta is...
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a muslim write and traveler to mali in 1353
he kept a diary of his 24 years of travel, that is one reason y we kno so much bout mali. |
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What did mansa musa do?
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he ruled from 1307-1332, under his rule trade tripled and he doubled the land size
to organise kingdoms divided into ferbas, each with a governer he also wated to creat a kafu |
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ferba
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province
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what are two types of camels
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bacterian
promedary |
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bacterian camel has __ hump
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2
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promedary has __ hump(s)
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1
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bactrian goes __mpday
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25
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bactrian is used for and carries ___ lbs
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transporting goods, 400
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promedary goes ___mpday
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100
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another name for promedary camel is
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arabian camel
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which is stronger promedary or bactrian
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promedary-used for riding though
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what would happen if there were no camels
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NO TRADE
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camels are good in the desert because
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- it can get sand out of nose, eyes, and ears
-hooves were large, able to balance w. heavy loads |
