| A | B |
|---|
| Savanna | Africa’s largest and most populated climate zone |
| desertification | caused by climate change this is a process by which the land dries out and the desert increases in size |
| outpost | distant military stations |
| Bantu | the root language of the Sub-Sahara people |
| Meroe | the capital city of Nubia |
| St. Augustine | an influential Christian thinker who was born on the coast of North Africa during the Roman Empire |
| Surplus | excess |
| Commodity | a valuable product |
| Mansa | the term for King in Mali |
| Oba | the term for King in Benin |
| Ghana | the earliest West African Kingdom controlling the gold salt trade around 800 A.D. |
| Sundiata | around 1235 he was the original Lion King came to power and established the Kingdom of Mali He organized the trade routes and allowed religious freedom |
| Mali | this kingdom was established in West Africa after the fall of Ghana |
| Mansa Musa | Sunidata’s grandson he is considered Mali’s greatest emperor coming to the throne around 1312 |
| Songhai | the third great West African Kingdom controlling the gold |
| Benin | built farming villages in the rain forests around the 1300s knew how to cast bronze wore brightly colored clothing |
| Hausa | a West African Kingdom that had a number of clay walled cities engaged in trade as far away as North Africa and Europe developed a written language and had women leaders |
| Axum | established around 200 B.C. in East Africa this kingdom became a stronghold for Christianity when King Ezana converted |
| Ethiopia | when the kingdom of Axum faded and the influence of Islam spread this kingdom was an outpost of Christianity |
| Swahili | meaning coasters a string of commercial cities along the coast of East Africa that were very influential in trade with India and Asia |
| Great Zimbabwe | meaning great stone buildings this settlement was an intricate location from about 900-1500 AD between interior Africans and the coastal trade cities” |
| slash and burn | a type of agriculture in which the rain forest is cut burned and the revealed land is used for crops |
| nuclear family | parents and their children |
| patrilineal | kinship ties and inheritance is passed through the father’s side of the family |
| matrilineal | kinship ties and inheritance is passed through the mother’s side of the family |
| griot | professional poets storytellers |
| King Ezana | King of Axum who converted to Christianity in the 300s AD |
| Triangular Trade | goods to Africa slaves to West Indies sugar and molasses to Europe or colonies |
| Middle Passage | second leg of triangular trade when slaves were brought to the West Indies from Africa |
| Boers | Dutch farmers who settled around Cape Town in South Africa |
| Zulu | clan of Africans who migrated into South Africa around the 1500s and became a strong military Kingdom by the 1800s |
| Shaka | a strong brilliant Zulu leader |
| repeal | cancel |
| monopoly | exclusive control of a business or industry |
| Great Trek | movement of Boers from South Africa and British control to further north in Africa |
