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| Oldvai Gorge | a sit of fossil beds in northen Tanzania, containing the most continuous know record of humanity over the past 2 million years, including fossil from 65 hominids |
| Asksum | an importing trading capital form the first to the eigth centuries A.D. in what is now Ethiopia; it flourished due to its location near the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean |
| Berlin Conference | a conference of 14 European nations held in 1884-1885 in Berlin, Germany, to establish tulers for political control of Africa |
| Cash Crop | a crop grown for direct sale, and not for direct sale, and not for use in a region, such as coffe, tea, and surger in Africa |
| masai | a major ethnic group in East Aftica |
| pandemic | a disease affecting a large population over a wild geographic area |
| Islam | a monotheistic religion based on the teachings of the prophet Muhammad and the biggest cultural and religious influence in North America |
| rai | a kind or popular Algerian music developed in the 1920's by poor urban children that is fast-paced with danceable rhythms, was somethimes used as a form of rebellion to expose political unhappiness |
| monotheistic religion | a religion that is based on the teaching of the prophet muhammad |
| soaks | market place |
| Goree Islands | an island off the coast of senegal that served as a major depature point for slaves during the slave trade |
| stateless society | one in wihich people use ineages or families whose members are descended form a common ancestor to govern themselves |
| ashanti | a people who live in what is now Ghana in West Africa, and who are know for their artful weaving of colorful asasia, or Kente cloth |
| Banta Migration | the movement of the Bantu people southward throughout Africa spreadin language and culture |
| King Leopold II | the Belgian king who opeaned up the African interior to European treade along the congo River and by 1884 controlled the sea area known as teh Congo Free State |
| Mobutu Sese Seko | the leader of Zaire, which is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, form its independence in the 1960's until 1997. He brought the country's businesses under national control, profited form the reoganization, and used the army to hold power |
| Fang sculpture | carved boxes containing the skulls and bones of deceased ancestors, created by the Fang, who lived in Gabon, southern Cameroon, and Equatorial Guinea |
| mutapa empire | a state founded in the 15th century by a man named Mutota and that extended throught all or present-day Zimbabwe except the eastern part |
| apartheid | a policy of complete separation of the races, instituted by the white minority government of South Africa in 1984 |
| Nelson Mandela | one of the leaders of African national Congress who led a struggle to end apartheid and was elected president in 1994 in the first all-race election in South Africa |
