| A | B |
|---|
| Sunni Ali | Songhai leader who built the largest empire in West Africa |
| sultan | a Muslim leader |
| oral history | stories passed down verbally from generation to generation |
| death road | trade route connecting western Africa to the coast of the Mediterranean Sea |
| Queen Nzinga | promised to free all enslaved people in her kingdom |
| Ghana | grew wealthy from taxes on the salt and gold trade |
| African Diaspora | the spread of African culture around the world by enslaved Africans |
| Nile | Africa's longest river |
| Bantu | fishing groups that migrated throughout Africa around 3000 B.C. |
| Mansa Musa | journeyed to Makkah in 1324 |
| plantations | huge farms that grew a crop for sale |
| Swahili | the culture and language of East Africa |
| clan | a group of people descended from the same ancestor |
| griots | storytellers |
| matrilineal | tracing descent through mothers |
| Islam | spread from Arabia into Africa beginning in the A.D. 600's |
| Timbuktu | an important center of Islamic culture and learning |
| Portugal | the first European country to participate in the African slave trade |
| Cave paintings | the earliest known form of African art |
| Sundiata Keita | a great warrior-king who seized Ghana |
| Ibn Battuta | a young, Muslim lawyer from Morocco who studied the Quran |
| proverb | a brief saying that teaches a lesson about living |
| music and storytelling | connected enslaved Africans to their homeland |
| sugarcane | a major crop produced using enslaved Africans |
| kente | a brightly colored cloth of West Africa |
