Songhai Empire - 2024 ACF Winter

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


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
SFU	UBC A	0	10	0	10
UW B	UBC B	10	10	0	20
UW A	Alberta	10	10	0	20
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
Berkeley A	Stanford A	10	10	0	20
Stanford L	Berkeley C	10	10	0	20
stanford M	Berkeley B	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
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
Oxford B	Bristol B	0	10	0	10
Cambridge B	Manchester	0	10	0	10
Durham A	Southampton B	0	10	0	10
Durham A	Southampton A	0	10	0	10
Durham A	Southampton B	0	10	0	10
Durham A	Southampton A	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 B	0	10	0	10
Durham A	Southampton A	0	10	0	10
Durham A	Southampton B	0	10	0	10
Durham A	Southampton A	0	10	0	10
Vanderbilt	Bristol A	10	10	0	20
Warwick A	Durham 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
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
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
Diamond Brandeis	Clark A	0	10	0	10
Harvard A	MIT	10	10	0	20
Yale A	Yale C	0	10	0	10