World History Ch. 15.2 West African Civilizations

Question	Answer
ghana	west african kingdom that grew rich from taxing and controlling trade that established and empire in the 9th-11th century A.D.
mali	a west african empire that flourished from 1235 to the 1400s and grew rich from trade
sundiata	mali's first great leader
ibn battuta	a native of tangier in north africa who traveled most of the countries in the islamic world
songhai	a west african empire that conquered mali and controlled trade from the 1400s to 1591
hausa	a west african people who lived in several city-states in what is now northern nigeria
youruba	a people who all spoke a common language
benin	a kingdom that arose near the niger river delta in the 1300s and became a major west african state in the 1400s

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