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Modern World History A
Unit I - The World in the Fifteenth Century
Instructional Objective 1102
Songhai
Identify relevant physical and cultural characteristics of Songhai c. 1500.
Focus Statements
1102.1
Songhai, like empires of Ghana and Mali which preceded it, emerged in the savanna region of west Africa. Its cities at the edge of these grasslands were like port cities on an ocean; that is, they were great centers of the trans-Saharan trade routes to Asia, Europe, and the Medi ...
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