| Term | Definition |
|---|
| griots | oral storytellers |
| Kush Empire | East African. Located were the Nile splits off into two rivers, embraces Egyptian civilization, masters of iron civilization, fought the Romans |
| Meroe | capitol of Kush; advantageous location because of iron ore, timber, rain, agriculture, cattle grazing land, and on a trade route. |
| Axum Kingdom | near the Red Sea; overtook the Kush |
| Ghana Kingdom | one of the richest trading civilization in West Africa; 1st of the Sudanic Kingdoms; opened kingdom to Islam; overtaken by the Almoravids |
| King Ezana | Axum King; led the conversion to Christianity |
| Almoravids | Muslim reform group that took over Ghana |
| Mali Empire | King Mansa Musa; Islamic; wealthy; took over the Almoravids; built mosques; possible trans-Atlantic travel; overtaken by the Songhai |
| Mansa Musa | Mali's greatest king; brought Muslim scholars back to Africa, king of the Mali empire in West Africa, is known mostly for his fabulous pilgrimage to Mecca and for his promotion of unity and prosperity within Mali |
| Timbuktu | Mali's capitol; great college was here (Sankore) |
| Ibn Battuta | North African scholar and traveler that came to Western Africa 200 years after Mansa Musa's death; he described Timbuktu's intellectual brilliance |
| Songhai Kingdom | One of Mali's independent states; eventually took over all of Mali; main export was slaves; greatest ruler was Askia the Great (Muhammad Toure); overtaken by the Moroccans |
| Sonni Ali | Muslim ruler of the Songhai; under him the Songhai formed the largest and greatest of the Sudanic Kingdoms |
| nuclear family | family group consisting of parents and children |
| matrilineal | tracing descent through their mothers rather than their fathers |
| patrilineal | tracing descent through their fathers rather than their mothers |
| Supreme Spirit | all African's call this god their "Supreme Creator" |
| Zenji | Arabic term for the east African coast |
| Mogadishu | one of the most important Swahili ports on the East African Coast |
| Kiswahili | the most widely spoken language in East Africa, a Bantu language with a large number of Arabic words used for everyday speech |
| Swahili | "the people of the coast", as a language it's a mixture of Arabic and Bantu |
| Kilwa | the most important and powerful of the trading city-states on the East African Coast, the southernmost point that merchants could sail to during a season |
| Great Zimbabwe | trading society/state in South Africa |
| Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade | shipment of slaves from Africa across the Atlantic for sale in the Americas |
| Middle Passage | the journey of slaves from Africa to the Americas, so called because it was the middle portion of the triangular trade route |
| The Triangular Trade | a pattern of trade that connected Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas, where they traded goods for people/slaves |
| Olaudah Equiano | educated ex-slave that wrote an autobiography about the slave trade |
| Ottobah Cugoano | educated ex-slave that proposed a squadron of British ships patrol the African coast to suppress the slave trade |
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