African vocab
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- songhai
- largest empire in west africa which they traded gold and salt
- sundiata
- "lion prince", ruled mali took over gold and salt traders
- mali
- empire that replaced ghana
- ghana
- trading center in north west africa-- gold and salt
- matrilineal
- a group that traces descent through their mothers
- extened families
- families made up of several generations
- great zimbabwe
- trading center, in south east africa which specialized in gold,copper,ivory
- ibn battuta
- young arab lawyer from morocco, who spent 30 years studying the muslim world
- plateau
- an area of high flat land
- mansa musa
- last strong king of mali
- patrilineal
- a group that traces descent through their fathers
- swahili
- the language and unquie culture of africas east coast