Ch. 15 Africa

reward given to heroic soldiers in Mali

• Nile

• National Honor of the Trousers

• death road

the largest empire in West Africa in the 1500s

• African Diaspora

• death road

• Songhai Empire

promised to free all slaves in her kingdom

• Ghana

• Bantu

• Queen Nzinga

fishing groups that migrated throughout Africa around 3000 B.C.

• Ghana

• Nile

• Bantu

journeyed to Mecca in 1324

• Axum

• Mansa Musa

• Bantu

• Songhai Empire

the spread of African culture around the world by enslaved Africans

• Nile

• death road

• African diaspora

• Bantu

trade route connecting Western Africa to the coast of the Mediterranean Sea

• African Diaspora

• death road

• Ghana

• Axum

a city-state in Ethiopia

• Axum

• Ghana

• Bantu

• Songhai

Africa’s longest river

• Bantu

• Nile

• Ghana

• Death Road

grew wealthy from the salt and gold trade

• Nile

• Bantu

• Ghana

• Axum