| A | B |
|---|
| professional storyteller in early West Africa | griot |
| term for a family organization in which kinship ties are traced through the mother | matrilineal |
| a group of households claiming a common ancestor | lineage |
| general agreement | consensus |
| capital of inland empire whose name means "great stone buildings" | Great Zimbabwe |
| parents and children living together as a unit | nuclear family |
| term for a family organization in which kinship ties are traced through the father | patrilineal |
| directed the building of churches carved out of rock in Ethiopia | King Lalibela |
| language meaning "of the coast" that emerged in East Africa | Swahili |
| a group of connected buildings that form a single whole | complex |
| strategic trading port of the kingdom of Axum | Adulis |
| to form into a single unit | unify |
| Christian kingdomo in the mountains of East Africa | Ethiopia |
| kingdom in the rain forests of the Guinea coast | Benin |
| kingdom that arose in modern day Nigeria, and built walls to protect their cities | Hausa |
| trading center, and powerful ancient kingdom in northern present-day Ethiopia | Axum |
| a fair and objective attitude toward opinions and practices which differ from one's own | tolerance |
| the West African kingdom tat grew around the wealthy trading city of Gao, its capital | Songhai |
| built the largest state that had ever existed in West Africa | Sonni Ali |
| West African trading empire founded by Sundiata | Mali |
| greatest ruler of the kingdom of Mali | Mansa Musa |
| trading city of Mali where Mansa Musa had an Islamic university built after his hajj | Timbuktu |
| to manage or direct | administer |
| kingdom of the Soninke people located between the Niger and Senegall rivers | Ghana |
| the founder of the kingdom of Mali | Sundiata |
| capital of Songhai | Gao |
| an amount that is more than is needed, excess | surplus |
| valuable product | commodity |
| ancient kingdom located along the fertile land of the upper Nile | Nubia |
| capital of Nubia that had rich deposits of iron ore which they used to develop iron weapons | Meroe |
| put to practical use | utilized |
| approximately 4,000 miles long it is the longest rift, or trench on the earth's surface | Great Rift Valley |
| process by which fertile or semi-desert land becomes desert | desertification |
| the root language of West African people | Bantu |
| the largest desert in the world running across the top half of Africa | Sahara |
| grassy plain | savanna |
| a waterfall | cataract |
