| A | B |
|---|
| woodland forest | area of abundane trees and shrubs |
| extended family | an immediate family plus other close relatives, such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins |
| rainforest | an area of lush vegetation and year-round rainfall |
| sahara | The largest desert in the world |
| sahel | a semidesert with less dry zone of grasses and shrubs |
| smelting | process of heating and melting ore in order to get iron and other metals from it. |
| excavating | in archeology, to carefully dig out an ancient site. |
| tribute | Money paid from one ruler to another for protection |
| Ghana | The first of West Africa's empires |
| continents | Africa is one of seven |
| gold and salt | Ghana's trade was based on these two items. |
| griot | A person who memorizes histories and stories in African culture. |
| Mali | Mansa Musa's homeland |
| matrilineal | This is the type of succession that Ghana had to determine its next ruler. |
| oral tradition | Things that were passed down orally from one generation to another. |
| call and response | a song style in which a singer or musician leads with a call and a group responds |
| balafon | traditional musical instrument of West Africa made of wooden bars attached to a horizontal frame. The bars are struck with a hammer much like a xylophone |
| terra-cotta | a baked clay often used to make pottery and sculptures |
| genealogy | an occunt of the line of ancestry within a family |
| folktale | a story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a community's tradition |
