Africa
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Created by:
thomasglobal on May 11, 2009
Subjects:
societies, migration, kingdoms, West civilization, eastern city states
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15 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Nok | West African's earliest known culture |
| Djenne-Djeno | Exsesive grassy plains that usually support agriculture in Africa |
| Animism | A religion in which sprits are involved in regulating daily life |
| Migration | The movement of people from one country to another |
| Slave trade | Political cause leading to mirgration |
| Aksum | Located at the Horn of Africa |
| Zokales | Was thought to be the first king of Aksum |
| Adulis | The chef of sea port near present day Massawa |
| Ezana | An exceptionally strong ruler in 325 to 360 A.D |
| Terraced Farming | A new way of farming enabled them to greatly increase the productivity of land |
| Lineage | Descendants of a common ancestor |
| Ribat | Almoravids lived in a fortified monasteries |
| Mahrib | North part of Africa that today is not Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Libya |
| Mali | a kingdom created in 1235, and its wealth was built on gold |
| Sundiata | a devoted muslim that traveled to most of the countries in the Islamic World |
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