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In 2018, Humphrey Davies translated a travelogue about this sultanate by Muḥammad al-Tūnisī, who traveled south on the Forty Day Road to its emporium of Kobbei. This sultanate’s Keira dynasty created a system managed by “master of the ax” stewards and fuqara (15[1])holy men. The slave trader al-Zubayr conquered (-5[1])this sultanate from his network of zariba forts (-5[1])in the (-5[1])Sea of Gazelles during the 1870s Turkiyya era. After succeeding the Tunjur (15[1])kingdom, this sultanate created the hakura system to give land grants to (*) cattle-herding Baggara clans. More recently, the region named for this sultanate spawned (-5[1])the Justice and Equality Movement among the Zaghawa people, (-5[1])who have been displaced by self-identified Arab militias (10[1])on (-5[1])horseback. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])what sultanate ruled a region (10[1])where the Janjaweed (10[1])participated in a 21st-century (10[1])genocide? (10[2])■END■ (10[5])

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