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AFRICAN KINGDOMS - Coggle Diagram
AFRICAN KINGDOMS
Benin
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Grew wealth through trade in pepper, ivory, and slaves.
The city surrounded by a 6km long wall, and was filled by different artifacture that represent kingdom's unique style.
At one point , the wall were over 16000km
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Mali
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People and leaderships gradually adopted Islam, but they still pratices their traditional religious.
The city Timbuktu became one of the world center of Islamic learning and the home of the world's first universities.
Hausa
These cities became famous for their high quality fabrics and leather, which was trade to souther Europe
Many people was converted to Islam, and they use Arabic as their language.
By the 1200, they had created a number of walled city-state.
Some Hausa leaders were women, such as Amina. She's the queen of Zazzu, who built the short lived kingdom in 1500s.
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Ghana
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Grew rich through trade, it had massive og golds.
the king created a new religion, which is similar to Islam
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