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The Songhai Empire: Sonni Ali, Askia Muhammad, and Trans-Saharan Routes
Examine military expansion under Sonni Ali, Askia Muhammad's administrative reforms, and Songhai's role in the gold, salt, and captive trade.
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African Kingdoms and Trade Networks: Axum to Songhai
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Map and evaluate the political structures, economic systems, scholarship, and trade networks of medieval African empires and city-states.
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WHI.T3.2Massachusetts Social Studies Standards · 5th GradeMap the geographical extent of one of the following kingdoms or empires; explain its central political, economic, cultural developments and its role in trade, diplomatic alliances, warfare, and exchanges with other parts of the world.
WHI.T3.2.aMassachusetts Social Studies Standards · 5th Gradethe West African empires of ancient Ghana (c. 700–1240 CE), Mali (c.1230–1670 CE), and Songhai (15th-17th centuries CE), the importance of Timbuktu as a center of trade and learning, the gold-salt and slave trade