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Savanna |
a flat grassland of tropical or subtropical regions |
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Bantu Migrations |
migrated between about 1000 B.C. and A.D. 1000 (West African farmers and herders), languages spoken in central, east-central, and southern Africa |
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Trans-Saharan trade |
refers to trade across the Sahara between Mediterranean countries and West Africa |
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Berbers |
a member of a North African, primarily Muslim people living in settled or nomadic tribes from Morocco to Egypt |
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Kingdom of Ghana |
first of the great medieval trading empires of western Africa (7th – 13th century). |
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Kingdom of Mali |
a huge territorial empire that flourished in west Africa during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Its capital was Timbuktu, which became a center of Islamic learning (see Islam). The empire controlled trade routes that stretched from the edge of the Sahara in the north to forests in the south and that carried gold and other luxuries |
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Sundiata |
the founder of Mali empire. He crushed his enemies and won control of the gold trade routes |
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Mansa Musa |
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 |
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Timbuktu |
a city of central Mali near the Niger River northeast of Bamako. Founded in the 11th century by the Tuareg, it became a major trading center (primarily for gold and salt) by the 14th century. Also had Muslim universigy |
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Kingdom of Songhai |
Songhai was the last and final great empire of West Africa. a very big trading city back then where many people would trade things like gold for salt |
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Axum |
a town of northern Ethiopia. From the first to the eighth century A.D. it was the capital of an empire that controlled much of northern Ethiopia |
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Ethiopia |
a kingdom was established around Aksum in the 1st century A.D. and declined in the 7th century |
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Swahili City-States |
established regional trade centers, where copper, gold, silver, lead, gum copal pottery, beads, and bronze came from Cambodia, China, Arabia, Egypt, Yemen, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Indian subcontinent |
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Zimbabwe |
a country of southern Africa. Various Bantu peoples migrated into the area during the first millennium, displacing the earlier San inhabitants |
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Asante Kingdom |
the Asante kingdom was a confederation of states based on military power. The Asante-hene (king of Asante) ruled from his capital at Kumasi. The history of Asante began in Bono Manso located near the Mali Empire city of Djenne. The discovery of gold on Asante lands brought these people to the attention of the Portuguese |
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Triangular trade |
2-way trading process where merchants carried rum and other goods from N. England to Africa; in Africa they traded their merchandise for enslaved people, whom they transported to the West Indies and sold for sugar and molasses |
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Middle Passage |
the route in between the western ports of Africa to the Caribbean and southern U.S. that carried the slave trade |
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Ship-to-shore trading |
a trade tactic used to enable people to import and export goods to the United States from foreign and domestic countries |
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Factory Forts |
factories that help with raw materials and things to be traded and held |
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