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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ghana | was a kingdom in africa, it was ruled by sohinke people, salt was a major trade, art, technology, and philosiphy were all very important |
| Mali | was a kingdom in africa, traded salt, grain, and wine, islam was the main religion |
| Songhay | was a kingdom in africa, was the center of learning, traded lots of fish, controlled trade routes, had an essential military, used caste system, and islam was the main religion |
| nuclear family | parents and brothers and sisters and step family |
| tribe | communal living |
| animism | 1. belief in one remote supreme god2. a world of spirits (good and bad) in all things3. ancestor veneration4. belief in magic, charms, and fetishes5. diviner =meditator between god and people of the tribe. |
| chinampas | irragation system developed by the aztecs |
| tribute | goods and services conqured people paid to the aztecs |
| human sacrifice | aztecs killed people to please their gods |
| aztecs | tribe that is in modern day mexico city they had many achomplishments and human sacrifices. had tribute of gold and human |
| incas | a tribe that was alot alike the aztecs but they did animal sacrifice. took tribute of land and labor |
| Mayans | had accurate calender, used hieroglyphic writing system, had social classes, produced lots of maize or corn |
| Mansa Musa | remembered for hajo pr pilgrimage to mecca |
| Ibn Battuta | he took a journey to many places of discomfort |
| Prince Herny the navigetor | took many voyages, good guy, serch for christians to trade and pray with |
| montezuma | died in battle |
| quetzocoatal | was a god. aztecs thought curtos was quetzocotal and gave him gold. |