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| Ibn Battutah | Muslim traveler and writer, he visited Africa, India, China and Spain
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| Berbers | North African people who used there knowledge of the desert to lead caravans
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| Nok | live in present day Nigeria, they are warriors
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| Mansa Musa | Mali's greatest and most famous ruler, he was a devout Muslim. he made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca which helped spread Mali's fame on his pilgrimage he brought the influence of Muslim law into his government
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| Koumbi Saleh | a major trading city in the empire of Ghana
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| Askia the great | Songhai ruler, he over through Sunni Baru, his reign was the high point of the Songhai culture. he also changed his name to give him higher power
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| Sundiata | Founder of Mail, his reign is recorded in legends
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| griots | West African story tellers
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| Morocco | A city in West Africa. they invaded Songhai and they brought the arquebus. they invaded them because of the gold mines
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| Timbuktu | a city in West Africa that began as a camp for traders around AD1100's and became a major center of learning and culture. they were sharing the empire with Mali and Ghana
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| Ghana | A Westa African counrty located between the Neger and the Senegal rivers; sight of powerful empire and was established around the 300's. the banding together and the soninke farmers
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| Mali | A West African country located on the Niger river; it was the location of an loction that reached its height around the 1300's
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| Savannah | open grassland with scattered trees
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| Silent barter | is a process in which people exchange goods without contacting each other directly to protect the location of the mines
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| Gold | is a valuable mineral that is like money and is very hard to get and find. it was to make jewelry
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| Iron | a hard metal that is used for making weapons and farming tools
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| Camel | helped travel around deserts faster, you could put things on it for trade and it was easier than walking. it was animal that was made to make the caravans
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| Extended family | a family group that consists of father, mother chlidren, and close relatives under one household. villages survived and thrived from this
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| Age-sets | men who have been born within the same ages with 2 or 3 years, have special bonds and some women have age- sets too
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| Animism | the belief that bodies of water, animals, trees and other natural objects have spirits
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| Spiritualism | they believed there ancestors are still alive when they are dead
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| Arabic | the language of most people in West African religion. the only written language that people understood and Mansa Musa created it
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| Dausi | a special way epic poems are collected
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| Kente | a hand woven, brightly colored Westa African fabric
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| Mansa | high power and Mansa Musa gave himself the name. king of kings
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| Overgrazing | when herds of animals eat all of the rass and there is no more grass or soil for farmers to farm. the Almoravid brought all of the animals in
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