Grade 7 - Term 1: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
… Islam slowly spread to regions that now make up the modern states of Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali … the kingdom to Islam and making it one of the first Muslim states in northern Africa. He incorporated the laws of the … families weakened Mali's governance and its network of states started to unravel. Then, in 1430, a group of Berbers …