| A | B |
|---|
| oral traditions | method of preservaton of history practiaced by Africans |
| Sahel | plateau in sup-Sahara region |
| sasvanna | treeless grassland with moderate rainfall |
| Kush | located on Nubian River, trade, discovered iron, invaded by Axum |
| Piankhi | Kushite king who defeated Egyptions and united Upper and Lower halves |
| Products exported from Egypt, Kush, and Axum | ivory, ebony, perfumes, iron, animal hides, and furs |
| basis of Axum's economy | trade |
| Ezana | from Ethiopia |
| Ezana | king of Axum converted to Christianity and made it official language of Axum |
| the Nok | West African culture, 1st people south of the Sahara to farm |
| Bantu's effects on other cultures | adopted ways of life, spread Bantu language, developed new ways of farming |
| matrilineal societies | traced their descent through mothers not fathers |
| age sets | specific jobs assigned to groups of males and females of a similar age |
| sub-Saharan religous belifs | single supeme god who created an orderly universe, leser deities, sprits of dead ancestors |
| salt | equal in value to gold |
| ghana | king, name of a country, gold |
| Ghana | trading power, many converted to Islam |
| slash and burn | fast easy way to clear land, wears out soil |
| Mansa Musa | greatest king of Mali, traveled in grand style, went to Mecca |
| Mansa Musa's trip's effect on world | world gold valuew lowered, his nation attacked |
| mosque | Muslim house of worship |
| Timbuktu | important center of Muslim art and learning |
| Ibn Battuta | Arab traveler and author, travled from Islamic countires to China |
| Askia Muhammad | divided Songhai into five huge probinces, introduced laws based on Islam |
| defeated Songhai | Moroccan soldiers, armed with guns and cannons |
| Basis of economy of Central and South Africa | trade |
| monopoly | sole control or ownership |
| products of Zanzibar | ivory, gold |
| multicultural | populated by a variety of cultural groups |
| Swahili | Bantu language that included Arabic and Persian words |
| Grat Zimbabwe | political and religious center of the kingdom |
| European "gifts" to African people | red cloth, tribal warfare, idea of slavery forever, measles, flu, STD's, guns and cannons |
| Africa | located between Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn |
| tropical rainforest | massive amnts. of rain, little undergrowth, tight cannopy, Tarzan, tsetse fly |
| savanna | surrounds rainforest, large animals, grassland, rainfall varies |
| desert | Sahara, Kalahari, Namib, little rain, can support little life |
| Mediterranean Climate | 4 good crops a year |
| rivers | easy travel inland, waterfalls made it hard for outsiders to get in |
| Stone Age | Sahara was grassland with lakes, ferile |
