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Module 12 Lesson 4
For SS 8H 2021
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a Maghrib | a region of western North Africa, consisting of the Mediterranean coastlands |
| Who were the Almohads | a group of Islamic reformers who overthrew the Almoravid dynasty and established an empire in North Africa and southern |
| What is an emir | a local chief, prince, or other ruler. |
| What was a Ghana | a West African kingdom that grew rich from taxing and controlling trade and that established an empire. |
| Which settlement traded slaves and ivory south to Gao | In Salah |
| How did Mali grow as an empire | they grew rich from taxing and controlling trade and that established an empire |
| What was Mali | a West African kingdom. |
| When did Sundiata die | He died in 1255. |
| Who was Sundiata | Founder and ruler of Mali |
| What did Sundiata do for the empire | He organized an army and defeated the other kingdoms of West Africa |
| When did Mansa Musa die | He died in 1332 |
| Who was Mansa Musa | Leader of Mali who held power from 1307 to 1332 |
| What did Mansa Musa do for the empire? | he expanded the empire to twice the size of Ghana He increased trade, supported the arts, and promoted Islam |
| When was Ibn Battuta born and when did he die? | He was born in 1304 and he died in 1368. |
| What did Ibn Battuta do most his life? | He was a traveler from Tangier who spent nearly 30 years traveling throughout the Muslim world in the 1300s |
| What was Songhai? | It was a West African empire that conquered Mali and controlled trade from the 1400s to 1591 |
| What was the Hausa? | It was a West African people who lived in several city-states in what is now northern Nigeria. |
| Who were the Yoruba? | They were a West African people who formed several kingdoms in what is now Benin and southern Nigeria. |
| What are terracotta sculptures? | They are a reddish-brown clay hard ceramic |
| What was Benin? | It was a kingdom that arose near the Niger River delta in the 1300s and became a major West African state in the 1400s. |
| How was the growth of Islam in North Africa similar to the growth in West Africa? | Islam spread in North Africa through military conquest while in West Africa it spread through trade. |
| How was the growth of Islam in North Africa similar to the growth in West Africa? | In both regions, Muslim rulers used religious scholars as government advisers. |
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