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Mali&Songhai Empires
Mali and Songhai
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Songhai | located in western Africa. From the mid-15th to the late 16th century, Songhai was one of the largest Islamic empires in history |
| Mali | country in West Africa. Mali is bordered by Algeria to the north, Niger to the east |
| Mansa Musa | emperor of Mali. Brought 13 tons of gold to Mali |
| Alfonso 1 | a ruler of the Kingdom of Kongo in the first half of the 16th century. He reigned over the Kongo Empire from 1509 to late 1542 or 1543 |
| kinship | blood relationship |
| labor specialization | a system of organizing the manufacture of an article in a series of separate specialized operations, each of which is carried out by a different worker or group of workers |
| griot | storyteller in western Africa who perpetuates the oral tradition and history of a village or family |
| savannah | flat grassland of tropical or subtropical regions |
| Berbers | an ethnic minority descended from Berbers and Arabs and living in northern Africa |
| Trans-Saharan trade | traded gold and salt |
| trade | goods exchange economy |
| Saharan | hottest desert, and the third largest desert after Antarctica and the Arctic. At over 9,400,000 square kilometres, it covers most of North Africa |
| empire Ghana | a sovereign state and unitary presidential constitutional republic |
| kingdom | a country, state, or territory ruled by a king or queen |
| Kongo Kingdom | an African kingdom located in west central Africa |
| Africa | second-largest and second-most-populous continent. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands |
| Culture | the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively |
| Sundiata | founder of the Mali Empire and celebrated as a hero of the Mandinka people |
| Timbuktu | a town in the West African nation of Mali situated 20 km north of the River Niger on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert |
| missionary | a person sent on a religious mission |
| Roman Catholicism | the beliefs and practices of the Catholic Church based in Rome |
| Trans-Atlantic Slave trade | the act of trading slave |
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