Mansa Musa - Ruled Mai during its "Golden Age" and created Islamic centers of learning, built mosques, and spread Islam throughout the kingdom, Arabic Language - Early West African oral history and stories were passed down through griots unitl this was introduces and helped West African created thier first WRITTTEN language, Gold and Salt Trade - The kingdom of Ghana had iron weapons and controlled this, West - The best cardinal direction to describe the area of Africa most influence by Islam, Sahara Desert - Landform that served as a barrier between West Africa and North Africa, Trade Centers - The cities of Timbuktu, Niani, and Djenne could all be classified as this in West Africa, Griots - People who orally handed down the histories and epics of West African culture, Nature Spirits - West African tradition beliefs included dance, masks, music, ancestor worship and this, Learning - Many manuscripts (books/documents) were sold in the city of Timbuktu which made in not only a center for trade but also a center of this, Trade - Islam spread from North Africa to West Africa through this, Gulf of Guinea - Body of water that the Niger River empties into, Islamic Scholars - Group of people that Mansa Musa brought back with him from Mecca to help spread Islam to the people of West Africa, Timbuktu - The city in West Africa that Mansa Musa began his religious pilgrimage to Mecca from, Islam - Acceptance of this relgion led to the growth of wealth through trade in West Africa, Songhai - West African kingdom that builts its government on the traditions of Ghana and Mali, Cultural Diffusion - The mixing and blending of ideas and beliefs between cultures,

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