Question
Histories of this empire heavily draw upon a series of ta’rikhs including one written by Ibn al-Mukhtar, the Tarikh al-fattash. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this empire, which the Moroccan Saadi Sultanate defeated at the Battle of Tondibi.
ANSWER: Songhai Empire
[10e] The Saadi invasion was sparked by a claim over mines of this resource found at Taghaza. This prized trade good was traded for gold in medieval trans-Saharan trade networks and was used to season food.
ANSWER: salt [accept Taghaza salt mines or gold-salt trade]
[10h] This traveler’s Description of Africa was one of the first accounts of the Songhai Empire accessible to European audiences. This Granada-born author converted to Christianity after being captured by Spanish pirates.
ANSWER: Leo Africanus [or Johannes Leo Africanus or al-Hasan Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi or Johannes Leo de Medicis]
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Summary
2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 15.00 | 88% | 63% | 0% |
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 20.00 | 100% | 89% | 11% |
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 12.86 | 100% | 29% | 0% |
2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 13.75 | 100% | 38% | 0% |
2024 ACF Winter at UBC | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida | 2024-11-16 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 60% | 20% |
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 11 | 16.36 | 100% | 55% | 9% |
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 14.44 | 100% | 44% | 0% |
Data
Berkeley A | Stanford A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Stanford L | Berkeley C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
stanford M | Berkeley B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Tennesse A | Alabama A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Auburn A | Emory B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Georgia Tech F | Auburn C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Clemson A | Georgia Tech D | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Georgia Tech E | Emory A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Georgia A | Auburn B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Tennesse B | Tusculum A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Penn State A | Bard A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Johns Hopkins A | Rutgers A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Lehigh A | Johns Hopkins B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Columbia A | Penn B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Penn State B | Rowan A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Penn State B | Rowan A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Penn State B | Rowan A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Penn State B | Rowan A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Penn State B | Rowan A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Penn State B | Rowan A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Penn State B | Rowan A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Penn State B | Rowan A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Johns Hopkins B | Princeton A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Rutgers C | Princeton A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Purdue A | Purdue B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
UChicago C | Purdue C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
UIUC A | Purdue D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
UIUC A | Purdue D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
UIUC A | Purdue D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
UIUC A | Purdue D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
UIUC A | Purdue D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
UIUC A | Purdue D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
UIUC A | Purdue D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
UIUC A | Purdue D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
UIUC D | UChicago A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
WashU B | UChicago D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
WashU B | UChicago D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
WashU B | UChicago D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
WashU B | UChicago D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
WashU B | UChicago D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
WashU B | UChicago D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
WashU B | UChicago D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
WashU B | UChicago D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Indiana A | WashU C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
UIUC B | WashU D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Kenyon A | CWRU B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Michigan D (DII) | CWRU D (DII) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Michigan A | Kenyon B (DII) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Ohio State B (DII) | Michigan State A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
CWRU C (UG) | Michigan State C (UG) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Ohio State A (UG) | Ohio State C (DII) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Pitt A | Michigan State B (UG) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Missouri | Arkansas | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Oregon State | Central Oklahoma | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Mississippi State | Colorado College | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Iowa | Ole Miss | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
NYU B | Vassar B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Texas A | Texas B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
WUSTL A | Texas C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Texas D | Vassar A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
SFU | UBC A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
UW B | UBC B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
UW A | Alberta | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
UF A | Florida Tech A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
UCF B | Florida Tech B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
UF C | UF D | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Florida State University A | UF E | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
UF B | UF F | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Oxford B | Bristol B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Cambridge B | Manchester | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Durham A | Southampton A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Durham A | Southampton A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Durham A | Southampton B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Durham A | Southampton B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Imperial A | Cambridge C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
LSE A | Warwick B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Birmingham | LSE B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Oxford A | Cambridge D | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Cambridge A | Southampton A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Durham A | Southampton A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Durham A | Southampton A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Durham A | Southampton B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Durham A | Southampton B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Vanderbilt | Bristol A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Warwick A | Durham B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Yale B | Amherst A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Boston University A | Williams A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
A Brandeis Supreme | Bowdoin A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
BU B | Bowdoin B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Brandeises Brew | Tufts A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Brown A | Tufts B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Diamond Brandeis | Clark A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Harvard A | MIT | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Yale A | Yale C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |