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Last class I learned about The conquest of Songhai by morocco, the Kingdom of Mali under mansa musa, how the Songhai Empire Grew to Greatness, Iron Technology’s Impact on West Africa, and The Kingdom of Gold.

What said on my notes are that Al-Mansur believed that if he controlled the trading, with the money, he wanted to buy expensive and strong equipments for the army after Songhai attacked Morocco in the 1580’s. In the 1586, salt began offensive salt mines the king had forbidden people to trade in the salt mine at Taghaza.

Mali under Mansa Musa, Mansa Musa brought gold for map makers because Mansa Musa wanted them to put Mali on the map. The Map Makers included Mali and Mansa Musa was confident. They built schools throughout Mali to read, write in Arabic and they divided territories.

How Songhai Empire grew greatness, Songhai began to rise and gained independence from Mali by the princes Ali, Gao, and Sukayman. Askia helped Songhai take control of the Niger River. Songhai had a strong government, social systems, free people working in farms, Center of learning and because of that, Songhai attracted people from other countries.

Before Iron was made in the West Africa, for millions of years, the people of west Africa used spears, arrows and harpoons whish were make out of banes and stones fixed to sticks for spears and arrows. The use of those equipments, the West Africans caught birds, insects, and planted plants like berries. Hunters killed more animals because of good equipments. The food supply continuously grew; houses and settlements became permanent and grew more crops. Trade began to develop, black-smiths made more tools and villages and towns became cities. The Nok use Iron Technology After 500 B.C.: They dug rocks, after it is smashed to little pieces. The iron ore from the rock is melted on top of the fire to make shapes, and when the iron ore is nice and warm, they beat it with a hammer to make it sharp and pointy.

The Kingdom or gold, Ghana. We did a play about Ghana and it was very amazing! People came about thousands of miles to trade gold and salt. The king controls the trade and the north brought salt for gold and the Wangarians traded gold for salt.