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