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Ancient sculptures could have come from the fall of Ghana.

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There were many diseases from trading because of all of the movement from places.

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Some of the sculptures are showing diseases because there were a lot of diseases when they were coming to trade in Timbuktu and Djenne.

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The seated figure could be made out of clay, stone and iron.

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The backbone of the seated figure looks like a skeleton.

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The body of the seated figure is all bent over on one knee.

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The sculpture is a King.

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The Akan people settled in Ghana and then broke up so there was an artifact of a head that represents the Akan King.

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Some sculptures looks liked faces.

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Some sculptures had bumps on them to push diseases away and were made of dried clay.

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How they made the seated figure was that it was made of clay that was shaped like a snake.

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Bumps and holes on sculptures could be showing blisters or scars from diseases.

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The word Griot is French.

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Anansi is a Ghanaian name.

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A female griot was called a griotte.

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Some people enjoyed riddles and proverb that anybody could tell. The griots job was to remember and pass down the stories of different groups of people.

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Sometimes griots would use people to act it out so they could make their story.

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West Africans first thought they should not write and they spoke different languages.

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Griots had to learn from their ancestors of how they taught the griots to become one. If their ancestors wouldn't teach them, there would be no griots to teach them.

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Anasi the spider's kids helped him get out of trouble. This story taught to work together, which is something that Ancient West African's valued.

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Griots had to have strong memories.

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In Malian, griots are called jeli.

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Ghana was the first major power of Africa. (Timbuktu was in Ghana).

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Some manuscripts are about astrology and theology.

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Timbuktu was unknown until the 10th century.

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The Ahmed Baba Institute is a huge library that held manuscripts.

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Manuscripts held a lot of knowledge.

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Timbuktu was a big city in the kingdom of Ghana.

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Most of the libraries were started by families.

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There are 40,000 manuscripts in the Ahmed Baba Institute.

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