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| Ruled lands in what are now angola and congo. |
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| Led the fight against the muslim invasion of her kingdom, which was located about where Mauritania is today. |
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| Families that made up several generations. |
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Traced descents that made up several generations back on the female side.
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| Stories passed down bywards mouth from generation to generation. |
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| conquered what was left of the rapidly diminishing empire ghana |
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| a group of people descended from the same ancestor |
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| Had strength mostly because of its location on the red sea. |
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| lion prince ruled from 1230 to 1255 seized the capital of Ghana in 1240. |
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| the leader of Songhai stormed into Timbuktu and drove out the Berbers. |
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| Sunni Ali their leader of stormed into Timbuktu and drove out the Berbers. |
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| or storytellers, and they give credit too Sundiata Keita. |
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| the first empire to develop. |
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| Mali began a slow decline after the death of its last strong king. |
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| under him Songhai built the largest empire in medieval West Africa. |
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| a young Arab lawyer from morocco, set out in 1325 to see the Muslim world. |
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| high flat land, and in the east movements of earths crust millions of years ago cracked the continent this formed the great rift valley. |
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| Wanderers historians are not really sure why they left their homeland but maybe the land become too crowded or farmers wore out soil. |
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| he sent his armies against Kush and defeated it. |
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| great trading center arose inland in southeastern Africa |
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| are where European slaves work. |
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| Benin Rainforest Kingdoms: |
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| arose in the Niger delta, and Kongo, which formed in the Congo basin. Artists excelled at sculpting and carving metal, wood, and ivory. |
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| The spreading of African people and culture around the world. |
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| they were the earliest form of African art we know about. |
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| Family how were Bantu families organized? |
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| In extended families and traced back on the women side of the family. |
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| Music how it has influenced styles we have Today? |
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| It has made the blues and helped over time form jazz, rock and roll, and more recently rap. |
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| Purpose of music and dance in African society |
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| People used it to express religious feelings, or to get threw a hard task like planting in a field believed dance helped the spirits express themselves. |
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| Slavery- role of the Portuguese, & Ways they kept memories of homeland Alive |
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| Sugarcane was hard labor and that is why enslaved people were perfect for it. The Portuguese promoted a whole new way to use enslaved people, by bringing them to a different country with different laws so that slaves could do more work. People also held on to memories and passed them down threw its family. |
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