Packet 1: Tossup 10

One of these places was populated entirely by people enslaved by the Massūfa tribe. Eastward movement of goods from these places at Chidzurgwe and Kansanshi made Ingombe Ilede a trade hub. Kola nut farms and these places turned Begho and Bono-Manso into political centers. (10[1])Before their diaspora, the Wangara were synonymous with these places and hid their locations. The Bida Serpent’s severed head (-5[1])supposedly became (10[1])one of these places in Buré (10[2])(“boo-RAY”). Mogadishu (-5[1])monopolized the trade in goods (-5[1])sent from these places (10[1])to Sofala. (10[1])Products (10[2])from two kinds of these places were bartered (10[1])at towns like (10[1])Walata (10[1])in the paradigmatic (10[1])“silent trade.” (10[2])Before its abandonment after the Battle of Tondibi, (10[1])many trade routes ended (-5[1])at one (10[1])of these places in Tāghaza. (10[1]-5[2])For 10 points, outputs from what places followed Trans-Saharan trade routes controlled by the Mali Empire? (10[2])■END■ (10[4]0[2])

ANSWER: mines [or gold mines; or salt mines; or copper mines; accept gold fields; accept mining or word forms; prompt on shafts; prompt on descriptions of gold/mineral deposits or ore veins; prompt on cities or towns or equivalents; prompt on salt flats or pans]
<Editors, World History> | J. Playoffs 1 (Editors 1)
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