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Bananas

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Good for diet and economy

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Brought disease to natives

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Bantu migrants

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Common language

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Bantu

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Traced lineage through

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Mother

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Religion

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Animistic

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Stateless society

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Not centralized

Kin based networks

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Secret societies

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Monitored people

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Who converts to Islam

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Upper class

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Women included

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In trade

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Weak gov so

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Easy to invade

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Trans-Saharan

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Not global level

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Islamic merchants brought

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Camels

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Africans gave

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Gold salt and ivory

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East African coast

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Swahili coast

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Indian Ocean cities

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Kilwa
Malindi
Mogadishu
Mombasa
Zanzibar
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North African natives

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Berbers

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Ifriqya

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East Africa

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Maghrib

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West Africa

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Jihads

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Puritanical reformists

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Ethiopia remains

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Christian

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Arabs called India ocean cities

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Zanj

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Kingdoms of the grasslands

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Ghana
Mali
Songhay

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Zanj cities open to

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Invasion

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Most Malinke residents were

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Farmers

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Timbuktu is a center

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Of learning

Books

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Mali is bigger than

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Ghana

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Juula

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Malinke

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Merchants did not try to

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Convert

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Sundiata

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Founding ruler of Mali

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Mansa musa

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Deepened support for Islam by extravagant pilgrimage

Compared to Marco Polo and ibn buttuta (all traveled Muslim world)

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Zimbabwe government

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Central gov.

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Walls around

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Cities

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Adopted Islam

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Not all

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King Mwene mutapa

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Important

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Things all kingdoms of the grassland had in common

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Patriarchy 
Linguistic/ethnicity 
Power over subordinates
Tax tribute military
Rulers sacred 
Islam royal cult 
Militaristic
Gold salt slave trade
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Songhay empire

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Took over from Mali

37
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Askia Muhammad the great

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Extended boundaries of Songhay

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Couldn’t enforce

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Strict Islam

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Zanj

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Slave

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Slave trade were mostly

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Women and children

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Swahili

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Bantu language melded with Arabic

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Hausa

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Northern Nigeria

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Ibn battuta

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Scholar from Morocco

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