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Who was Mansa Musa, and what kingdom did he rule?

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Mansa Musa was a king of Mali

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How did he (Mansa Musa) cause inflation in Egypt (Alexandria)?

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He gave Egypt so much gold that it wasn’t worth as much

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Mansa Musa passed through Egypt because he was making the —– which tells us that he was a ——-

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Hajj

Muslim

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Mali was in —– Africa and its biggest city was ————

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West

Timbuktu

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What two things were traded between Berbers and West Africans?

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Gold and salt

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How did Islam spread to West Africa ?

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Berbers–traders

West—Sand Roads/Saharan trade
East—Indian Ocean sea lanes

Rulers-Mansa Musa (Mali) and Kossi (Songhay) —> tell subjects what religion they are going to be

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How do we know about Mali?

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Arabic traders write about Africa. Worry about bias here

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Mali eventually fell to what empire?

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Songhay

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The eastern part of Africa saw the rise of ————. Was it an empire?

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Swahili civilization

No it is a collection of city states

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What two big things did the African Bantu bring with them to east Africa?

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Iron work and farming

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Swahili civilization really didn’t get started until the ——- century AD

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Eighth

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Plateau

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Relatively high flatland areas

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Savanna

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Broad grasslands dotted with small trees and shrubs in Africa

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Sahara

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Largest desert on Earth in Northern Africa

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Great Rift Valley

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A group of mountains that loom over deep canyons in east Africa

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Congo River

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River in the Congo basin located in South Africa

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Kalahari desert

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In South Africa and Is one of the largest deserts in Africa

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Nubia

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In Southern Africa

Trade with Egypt

Becomes Kush in 1000 BC

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Ethiopia

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Highlands on which Axum rose to power

20
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Explain the significance of Christianity in the history of Axum

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When King Ezana converted to Christianity in 330 AD, he made it the official religion of Axum

21
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How was Africa different 10,000 yrs ago?

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There was a prairie

22
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What caused this change from one type of landscape to another?

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Overuse— the grass can’t absorb nutrients

23
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When did West African people begin to farm?

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2000–1000 BC

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Lineage group

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Community of extended family

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Matrilineal

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Descent is traced thru the mother

Women could inherit property and the husband moved in with the wife

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Patrilineal

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Descent is traced thru the father

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Diviner

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People who believe they have the power to fortell events

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Griot

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Special class of storytellers that served as historians by telling history orally

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Doctors

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Exorcize ghosts

30
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Do the Bantus have ancestor worship? How important is it?

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Yes

Ancestor worship helps them live

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Where were the Bantu originally from?

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West Africa

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Where did the Bantus have move to and take over?

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South/East Africa

33
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What successful crops did the Bantus eventually get from the Malays?

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Asian yams and taro

34
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What River was in the middle of the Malian Empire?

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Niger

35
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Why are Cairo’s merchants able to make so much money off of the people from Mali?

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The people from Mali had a different currency so they gave the merchants more gold than needed

36
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What effect does all the gold have on Egypt’s economy?

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Massive inflation

Weak economy

37
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Inflation

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So much money/goods is either introduced or made that the value of that money/goods goes down

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Official religion of Axum

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Christianity

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The Bantu are

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A language group/tribe originally from Western Africa

40
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Bantu religion

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Ancestor worship
Animism
A class of diviners

41
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Swahili is a mixture of which two languages?

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Arabic and African

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