called the old stone age (from 10,000 to 2.5 million years ago); they were concerned with food supply; they used stone as well as bone tools; they wer...

he founded the Mali Empire

A pilgrimage to Mecca, performed as a duty by Muslims

Muslims of Spain

an important mineral that was traded by West African empires. It is needed to preserve food and replace the salt from human bodies when they sweat

Mali trading city that became a center of wealth and learning

the Spaniard who brought Estevan on an expedition to the New World

the earliest humanlike creature that flourished in eastern and southern Africa 3 to 4 million years ago

A newly discovered group of archaic Homo sapiens from southern Siberia dated to between 30,000 and 50,000 years ago.

Soninke clans who led the empire in the 600s-800s in West Africa and traded with caravans and camels across the Sahara

Capital of Songhai

route across the sahara desert. Major trade route that traded for gold and salt, created caravan routes, economic benefit for controlling dessert, cam...

a historical reference to West Africa