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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The language spoken in East African city-states. | Swahili |
| He was the most famous ruler of the Mali Empire and is also said to have been the richest person in the world. | Mansa Musa |
| Led the Songhai Empire to its height of power. | Sunni Ali |
| One of the most important ports in Africa and is said to be one of the most beautiful and well-constructed towns in the world. | Kilwa |
| It was a trading post in Western Africa and decided to take tariffs on everything that came through to be traded. | Ghana |
| It took over after the kingdom of Ghana and its capital was Timbuktu. | Mali |
| The capital of Mali. | Timbuktu |
| It overthrew the Mali Empire and it stretched from the Atantic coast to Lake Chad. | Songhai |
| It was the most important of the forest kingdoms. | Benin |
| It was a series of five Muslim dynasties that ruled northern India. | Delhi Sultanate |
| It developed a “tank-irrigated agriculture” and it thrived for two centuries. | Vijayanagara |
| It is a name for the Mongols in Europe and it was the kingdom that Batu Khan founded. | “Golden Horde”/Tartars |
| They were a nomadic people with no central government. | Mongols |
| Became chief of the Mongol tribe when he was 13 and he united all the Mongol tribes under one authority. | Temujin |
| It was the title given to Temujin which means universal ruler. | Genghis Khan |
| He completed the conquest of China and was one of the last Great Khans. He also established the Yuan Dynasty. | Kublai Khan |
| It was the first foreign dynasty to rule all of China. | Yuan Dynasty |
| He was one of the most famous of the missionaries, scholars, artists, merchants, and engineers. | Marco Polo |
| Led the Mongols into Europe and created the Golden Horde. | Batu Khan |
| Under his rule Moscow refused to pay tribute to the Mongols. | Ivan III |
| He was a Mongol-Turkish leader who claimed he was a descendant of Genghis Khan. | Tamerlane |
| He began the Mongol invasion of India. | Babur |
| The most successful Mughal leader who became ruler when he was about 13. | Akbar |
| He murdered his brother and imprisoned his father. | Aurangzeb |
| He was the first Ming ruler who organized rural communities and developed an army of over a million soldiers. | Emperor Hongwu |
| Became the Russian capital and weakened the Mongols. | Moscow |
| It was the pinnacle of Indian architecture. | Taj Mahal |
| A royal residence built by Emperor Hongwu. | Forbidden City |
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