| A | B |
|---|
| polyrhythmic | multiple beats in a piece of music |
| Porfirio Diaz | Mexican dicator [1900]improved economy at expense of peasants |
| pyramid | burial tombs for pharoahs |
| racism | hatred of a group of people |
| regionalism | being loyal to an area or region instead of to a nation/country |
| relics | another term for "artifacts" ? old coins, ancient hunting tools, knives ? etc. |
| rural | out in the country |
| Sahara Desert | a natural barrier in northern Africa |
| savanna | grassland |
| slave trade | also known as the Atlantic Slave Trade ? occurred from 1500s - 1800s ? roughly 15 million native Africans taken from the African continent .. Only 10 million survived the journey across the Atlantic |
| Songhai | civilization located south of Egypt - Islamic legal system |
| strategic chokepoint | area vital to trade |
