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human vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ibn Battutah | Muslim traveler and writer, he visited Africa, India, China and Spain |
| Berbers | North African people who used there knowledge of the desert to lead caravans |
| Nok | live in present day Nigeria, they are warriors |
| Mansa Musa | Mali's greatest and most famous ruler, he was a devout Muslim. he made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca which helped spread Mali's fame on his pilgrimage he brought the influence of Muslim law into his government |
| Koumbi Saleh | a major trading city in the empire of Ghana |
| Askia the great | Songhai ruler, he over through Sunni Baru, his reign was the high point of the Songhai culture. he also changed his name to give him higher power |
| Sundiata | Founder of Mail, his reign is recorded in legends |
| griots | West African story tellers |
| Morocco | A city in West Africa. they invaded Songhai and they brought the arquebus. they invaded them because of the gold mines |
| Timbuktu | a city in West Africa that began as a camp for traders around AD1100's and became a major center of learning and culture. they were sharing the empire with Mali and Ghana |
| Ghana | A Westa African counrty located between the Neger and the Senegal rivers; sight of powerful empire and was established around the 300's. the banding together and the soninke farmers |
| Mali | A West African country located on the Niger river; it was the location of an loction that reached its height around the 1300's |
| Savannah | open grassland with scattered trees |
| Silent barter | is a process in which people exchange goods without contacting each other directly to protect the location of the mines |
| Gold | is a valuable mineral that is like money and is very hard to get and find. it was to make jewelry |
| Iron | a hard metal that is used for making weapons and farming tools |
| Camel | helped travel around deserts faster, you could put things on it for trade and it was easier than walking. it was animal that was made to make the caravans |
| Extended family | a family group that consists of father, mother chlidren, and close relatives under one household. villages survived and thrived from this |
| Age-sets | men who have been born within the same ages with 2 or 3 years, have special bonds and some women have age- sets too |
| Animism | the belief that bodies of water, animals, trees and other natural objects have spirits |
| Spiritualism | they believed there ancestors are still alive when they are dead |
| Arabic | the language of most people in West African religion. the only written language that people understood and Mansa Musa created it |
| Dausi | a special way epic poems are collected |
| Kente | a hand woven, brightly colored Westa African fabric |
| Mansa | high power and Mansa Musa gave himself the name. king of kings |
| Overgrazing | when herds of animals eat all of the rass and there is no more grass or soil for farmers to farm. the Almoravid brought all of the animals in |
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