Hausa Kingdoms Flashcards
1
Q
What are the Hausa kingdoms
A
a collection of states started by the Hausa people, situated between Niger River and Lake Chad
2
Q
What did these states benefit from?
A
trade
routes connected to Ghana, Mali, and the Songhai Dynasty
3
Q
What took shape in the first millennium CE
A
Hausaland
4
Q
What is Hausaland
A
a political and cultural region as a result of the westward expansion of Hausa peoples
5
Q
what the most powerful city-state by the 14th century
A
Kano
6
Q
Why was Kano so famous
A
become the base for the trans-Saharan trade in salt, cloth, leather, grain, and slaves
7
Q
What were the states vulnerable to
A
constant war internally and externally
8
Q
who were they conquered by and when
A
West African Sunni Caliphate and in the 19th century
