| A | B |
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| Migration | The movement from one country or region to settle in another |
| Bantu | A large group of central and southern Africans who speak related languages |
| savanna | an area of grassland with scattered trees and bushes |
| Sahara | a huge desert stretching across most of north Africa |
| oral history | accounts of the past that people pass down by word of mouth |
| clan | a group of familes who trace their roots to the same ancestor |
| Msnsa Musa | a king of Mali in the 1300s |
| Mali | a rich kingdom of the west African savanna |
| Ghana | the first west african kingdom based on the gold and salt trade |
| songhai | a powerful kingdom of the west african savanna |
| Lle-Ife | the capital of a kingdom of the west african rain forest |
| Benin | a kingdom of the west african rain forest |
| kilwa | one of many trading cities on the east african coast |
| aksum | an important east african center of trade |
| city-state | a city that is also a separate independent state |
| swahili | a bantu language with arabic words spoken along the east african coast |
| great zimbabwe | a powerful southeast african city |
