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Unit VI Map Practice
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History
9th Grade
02/04/2009

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Mansa Musa's hajj (pilgrimage) took him from Timbuktu to...
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Mecca
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Mansa Musa's free spending caused big decline in the worth of gold, in the markets of...
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Cairo
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Homeland of Islam
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Arabia
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Capital of Ghana
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Saleh
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Capital of Mali
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Timbuktu
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Songhai Empire had major cities: Timbuktu and....
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Gao
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Raiders from ... occupied Songhai's cities in 1590 (they had guns!)
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Morocco
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south of the ..., Africa is tropical
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Tropic of Cancer
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South of the ..., Africa is temperate zone climate
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Tropic of Capricorn
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River in west Africa; it has a "Great Bend"
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Niger River
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Country whose trade routes circled around Africa to reach Asia
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Portugal
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Peter the Great defeated.... to win land on the coast of the Baltic Sea
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Sweden
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Louis XIV built Versailles eleven miles out from the city of...
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Paris
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Columbus convinced the king and queen of... that he could reach Asia by sailing west
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Spain
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Home of both Hobbes and Locke
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England
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Peter the great's navy was based on what sea?
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Baltic
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Country ruled by Louis XIV
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France
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Country whose empire included Mexico and Texas
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Spain
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City founded by Peter the Great in 1703
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St. Petersburg
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Its government created the Bill of Rights in 1689
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England
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Russia's old capital, before St. Petersburg was built
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Moscow
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City with a famous mosque; it's the world's largest building made of mud
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Jenne
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