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Kingdoms and States of Medieval Africa

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Kingdoms and States of Medieval Africa

500--1500 CE
Photo by Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the BPL
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Savannas

Broad grassland dotted with small trees and shrubs
Photo by Ron Dauphin
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Lineage Types of Traditional Africa

  • Matrilineal: Through mother
  • Patrilineal: Through father
Photo by tommybits
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Griot

A special class of African storytellers who help keep alive a people's history.
Photo by Julien Harneis
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Kingdom of Ghana

  • First great trading state in West Africa.
  • Intensely rich with gold.
  • Muslims traded salt for gold.
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Kingdom of Mali

  • Conquered Ghana
  • Established Timbuktu as an intellectual capital of the Muslim world.
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Mansa Musa

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Mansa Musa

  • Made strong government
  • Took the Hajj to Mecca and lavished the places he stopped at with gold.
  • Established University of Sankore in Timbuktu.
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Kingdom of Songhai

  • Located along Niger River
  • Conquered Mali
  • Largest empire in African history
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East Africa

Photo by Francisco Anzola
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Great Zimbabwe

State that traded with Arabia, India, and China.
Photo by David Holt London
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Ibn Battuta

Arab traveler who wrote about Arab world, East Africa, and China

Abraham Callahan