Empires of Africa

Can you name these empires, kingdoms, and sultanates which ruled in Africa throughout history?

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Started in one of the cradles of civilization, lasted from for over 3000 years	Egypt
The king's pilgrimage to Mecca was so lavish it caused inflation	Mali
Home to legends such as Hannibal and Queen Dido	Carthage
Britain's greatest defeat against a native African force was with them during the colonization of South Africa	Zulu
Empire which grew from the Trans-Saharan trade of salt and gold during the 1200s	Ghana
Took advantage of the fall of the above to create the largest empire in West African history	Songhai
Under Menelik II, this was one of the only empires to avoid European colonization	Ethiopia
Their sack of Rome gives us a word meaning "destruction or damage to public or private property"	Vandals
Trans-Saharan trading empire based around Lake Chad	Kanem
Successor of the above in the late 1300s	Bornu
In the early 1800s, this sultanate was united with Oman	Zanzibar
Empire spreading from Morocco to Libya before becoming the Roman province of "New Africa"	Numidia
Bantu kingdom with a Tutsi ruling class founded in the 15th century	Rwanda
The most successfully empire of Nubia, eventually controlling the Northern half of the Nile	Kush
Islamic Caliphate who traced their ancestry to Muhammad's daughter	Fatimid Caliphate
Christian kingdom which was a repeated enemy of Portugal in Angola	Kongo
In 1976 they changed the word "republic" in their name to "empire. In 1979 it changed back	Central African Empire
Empire near modern Eritrea home to a monumental obelisk	Aksum
Group of kingdoms in Nigeria whose descendants make up 86 million people across West Africa	Hausa
This sultanate was the first nation to recognize the United States	Morocco

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