location matching
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Created by:
mleeds412 on March 29, 2009
Subjects:
history, ancient history, world history, ancient world history, advanced world history
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The locations in chapter 12 (Africa). Use the test mode and only check "matching" to practice like the test.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
| kilwa | most beautiful city |
| Kumbi Saleh | city with one part for ruler and one part for commerce 6 miles away |
| savana | largest climate zone, it's a grassy plain that's fertile but with irregular rain |
| Sahara | largest desert in the world, in N. Africa |
| Great Rift Valley | in East Africa, housed earliest people |
| Timbuktu | wealthy center of learning in the Mali empire |
| Kano | most prosperous Hausa city-state, 14 mile circumference; 30,000 people, best king was the Muslim Muhammad Rumfa |
| Great Zimbabwe | AKA great stone buildings, discovered in 1800s by Europeans who thought the Phoenicians built them but Bantu-speaking Africans did, kept cattle in stone enclosing, did NOT run out of gold |
| Kalahari | desert in Southwest Africa near Nubia that to which the Khoisans adapted and lived in bands of 20-30 people |
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