The word Songhai
MOST NEARLY means:
  1. The belief that bodies of water, animals, trees, and other natural objects have spirits
  2. a West African empire that conquered Mali and controlled trade from the 1400s to 1591
  3. The movement of the Bantu peoples southward throughout Africa, spreading their language and culture, from around 500 b.c. to around A.D 1000
  4. West African state that supplied the majority of the world's gold from 500 CE-1400's
  5. The kingdom in West Africa, its wealth is also based on trans-Saharan trade; this kingdom encouraged the spread of Islam.
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