African Empires Chapter 15 set 2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Salt-Gold Trade | The trade between northern and western Africa that ultimately benefited the Ghana, Mali, and Songhai empires |
| Mansa Musa | A skilled military leader of Mali (about 1312-1332); he directed the gold-salt trade and built new mosques |
| Askia Muhammad | Songhai emperor, makes Islam the official religion of Songhai |
| Ghana | the West African empire that controlled the gold-salt trade; conquered by the Muslim Almoravids by 1076 |
| Mali | the West African empire that emerged by 1235, grew wealthy from the gold trade, and declined in the 1400's |
| Songhai | a wealthy West African empire that grows to largest West African state; controlled trans-Saharan trade; Islam official religion; had navy and army |
| Great Zimbabwe | The Shona's city of stone houses in southeastern Africa that became and empire built on the gold trade; controlled trade routes to Sofala |
| Timbuktu | City on Niger River created by Mansa Musa as capital of Mali and center of Islamic learning and trade |
| Kilwa | city-state on East African coast; grew rich because it was as far south on the coast as a ship from India could sail in one monsoon season and also took control of gold trading port of Sofala |
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