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History Chapter 15-2
Cedar Park History Chapter 15-2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Where is the African Empires in West Africa | Just South of the Sahara Desert |
| What influenced the development in empires in Western Africa? | Trade |
| What problem does the Sahara Desert cause for trade? | Trade is inconsistent with outside areas. The Sahara Desert prevented horses and other animals from reaching Western Africa |
| What did the Berbers do to improve trade in in the area? | They used camels to cross the desert, opened up new, consistent trade routes connecting North and Western Africa |
| What did the area between North and Western Africa become known as? | Ghana |
| What was Ghana named after? | war chiefs |
| What were the native people in Ghana called? | Soninke people |
| What happened to Ghana? | Ghana became wealthy because the leaders taxed trade goods that passed through the Area |
| What did Ghana have? | Gold in the ground |
| What did Ghana NOT have? | salt |
| What did North Africa have? | salt (Sahara desert in North Africa) |
| What did North Africa NOT have? | Gold |
| Trade between Ghana and North Africa made who wealthy? | Ghana, called the Gold-Salt Trade |
| Trade between Sub-Saharan Africans in Ghana and North African Muslims resulted in the spread of what? | The spread of Islam to Sub-Saharan Africa |
| When did the Almoravids conquer Ghana? | 1076 |
| What did the Almoravids do when they conquered Ghana? | they disrupted the Gold-Salt Trade |
| Did Ghana ever regain power of the region after the Almoravids conquered it? | No |
| After the Almoravids conquered Ghana, who was the next power in the region? | The Empire of Mali |
| Sundiata | 1st Emperor of Mali |
| What did Sundiata do? (3 things) | re-established the Gold-salt trade, expanded trade routes to the East and Mali became twice as big as the old Ghana Empire |
| Mansu Mansu | Ruler of Mali after Sundiata, was a Muslim |
| Where did Mansa Musa go? | He made the hajj to Mecca, with a huge entourage (lots of people travelled with him) gave out tons of gold to everyone |
| When Mansa Musa came back what did he do? | He built Timbuktu- the center of Muslim trade, science and education, lots of Mosques and universities |
| Ibn Battuta | North American Muslim traveler, spent years (27) visiting other Muslim areas, impressed by Mali |
| What was the Empire after Mali called? | The Songhai Empire |
| Who were the great leaders of the Songhai Empire? | Sunni Ali and Askia Muhammad |
| What was the downfall of Songhai? | they lacked modern weapons |
| What happened to the Songhai? | They were conquered by an army from Morocco who had gunpowder and canons. |
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