Chapter 11 Civilizations of Africa Vocabulary
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 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 |
| Mail | 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-Ife | the captial 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 seperate, independent state |
| Swahili | a Bantu language with Arabic words, spoken along the East African coast |
| Great Zimbabwe | a powerful southeast African city |
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