| A | B |
|---|
| migration | the movement from one country or region to settle in another |
| Bantu | a large group of central and southern Africans who speak related languages |
| savanna | an area of grassland with scattered trees and bushes |
| Sahara | a huge desert stretching across most of North Africa |
| oral history | accounts of the past that people pass down by word of mouth. |
| clan | a group of families who trace their roots to the same ancestor |
Mansa Musa,  | a king of Mali in the 1300s |
Mali,  | a rich kingdom of the West African savanna |
| Ghana, | the first West African kingdom based on the gold and salt trade |
| Songhai, | a powerful kingdom of the West African savanna |
| Ile-lfe | the capital of a kingdom of the West African rain forest |
| Benin | a kingdom of the West African rain forest |
Kilwa,  | one of many trading cities on the East African coast |
Aksum,  | an important East African center of trade |
| city-state | a city that is also a separate, independent state |
| Swahili | a Bantu language with Arabic words, spoken along the East African coast |
| Great Zimbabwe | a powerful southeast African city |
