World Studies Dec
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| Mandinke or Malinke | Among the first converts to Islam; People from southern Sahara who served as middlemen between Arab caravaners and gold miners.
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| kinship | family relationship and basis of West African government
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| pluralistic | Power and influence is split among people or groups
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| matrilineal | Descent and transfer of wealth & power is traced through the women
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| patrilineal | Descent and transfer of wealth & power is traced through the men
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| Mansa Musa | Mali's greater ruler and a devote Muslim
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| diviner | a person who claims that they speak to the gods and help people practice religion by interacting with their gods
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| griot | a West African storyteller
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| indigenous | A group of people belonging to a certain country or region which is distinguished from other groups by language, customs and attitudes.
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| hajj (pilgrimage) | An annual pilgrimage that Muslims make to Mecca
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| cultural diffusion | spread of cultural items—such as ideas, styles, religions, technologies, languages etc.—between individuals, whether within a single culture or from one culture to another. In West Africa, Islam spread from Arabia to the people of West Africa.
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| Soninke | group of people in Ghana who developed a wealthy kingdom based on agriculture and trade
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| Sundiata | king of Mali
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