One beautiful‚ quiet Saturday night in September I was tossing and turning in bed which is quite surprising for me. I didn’t think too much about it and eventually I managed to drift off to sleep. Little did I know that this would be one of the last nights I considered myself a kid and that in the next twelve hours I would be thrown unexpectedly into adulthood. When I was woken by my mom gently shaking me awake‚ my groggy eyes noticed she was accompanied by my brother and my dad. A very unexpected
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camel 10. What natural resource provided the incentive to trade for southern Saharan dwellers? Salt 11. What is the Sahel- what does it mean in Arabic? southern borderlands of the Sahara‚ the Coast 12. Trans- Saharan trade routes Trading network linking North Africa with sub-Saharan Africa across the Sahara. 13.The most important metallurgical development in sub- Saharan Africa involved what product? Iron 14. Bantu Collective name of a large group of sub-Saharan African languages
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of the Sahara desert to South Africa that have similar languages and to some extent customs. Their movements are called migrations their large scale movements over long distances. It is important however to understand that these movement did not occur at once. They took place in phases. The Bantu speaking people were part of the Iron Age people from the Middle East. They settled along the banks of the River Nile. Later‚ they moved to North Africa and occupied some areas in the Sahara grasslands
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in a while? All of these questions are running through my head. But we finally get to the hospital‚ and my heart is pounding so hard it feels as though it’s going to burst out of my chest. Even my throat is dry; it’s all scratchy feeling like the Sahara Desert. Our destination was the fourth floor‚ Room 4421. We enter the elevator and it finally it gets to a halt. I hear a crowd of laughter‚ I smell bed sheets that have been messed‚ and I see a smaller crowd ahead of me. Their sobbing very loudly
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trade and merchants in the Sahara‚ the many kings and their servicemen‚ and the journey to Mecca made by Mansa Musa. Merchants and trade in the trans-Saharan areas helped diffuse Islam. In Document 1 it states that the southern peoples of the Niger and Senegal River valleys obtained gold and slaves and traded them to Northern Berbers and Arab merchants. It also states that the use of the single humped Arabian camel was used to make it easier for outsiders to cross the Sahara. Southern traders and merchants
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The Tuareg People The Tuareg are nomadic people who live in parts of Sahara that covers Algeria‚ Tunisia‚ Libya‚ Mali ‚ Niger and Burkina Faso . Their numbers are unclear‚ but estimates run between 300‚000 and 1 million. The Tuaregs speak a language called Tamershak‚ to which there is a proper alphabet. They are known under the name of "Blue Men"‚ because men cover their face with a dark blue veil. The veiling has different meanings; it shows the male gender role identity and shows
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Muhammad ibn Battuta was born in Tangier‚ Morocco. His family was of Berber origins and had a convention of administration as judges. He was famous for his numerous travels to both Muslim and non Muslim regions which includes a big part of eastern Asia. These travels which lasted for almost 24 years has allocated Ibn Battuta the position to be one of the most famous travelers ever. In the wake of accepting a training in Islamic law‚ Ibn Battuta set out in 1325‚ at 21 years old‚ to perform a pilgrimage
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diffusion slowly changed their civilization. Rivers usually bring great ideas and water for irrigation. Egypt would have never been as great of a civilization if it had no river to use to make crops and then Egypt would be just another part of the Sahara desert. Mesopotamia would have never succeeded without the help of the Tigris-Euphrates rivers system to irrigate and make crops. Crops were incredibly useful for trade food and taming animals. If the two civilizations were not in river valleys‚ they
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many crops. This is just one of the many issues that Niger is trying to fight. Besides rain‚ high temperatures can run from 81-106 degrees during the rainy season‚ making it even more difficult for agriculture to survive. On top of that‚ the Sahara desert can produce winds that reach up to 70 M.P.H.; these winds are called the Sirocco Winds. The Sirocco Winds will take sand from the desert and blow it into the farmlands‚ causing more devastation. Farmers that try to grow crops in these conditions
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open to the mysteries of the universe. It got my mind working and thinking of how each line meant for me‚ and made me realize that it actually has some deeper way of teaching us of what is truly essential in our lives. The narrator landed on the sahara desert all by himself. His loneliness made me think of how important relationships with others are. He was alone‚ until the little prince came out of nowhere and soon enabled him to embrace the lessons his new friend has to offer. He showed the little
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