The Africas

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sparse area of unpredictable rain

Early empire, large islamic population

Kalhari and Namib

Deserts in Southern Africa

Excess plant growth in a tropical rain forest climate

Ancestry traced through mothers

ancestry traced through fathers

The two most important trade resources of Western Africa (Sahara contains the salt)

Oral Traditions

poems, songs, stories, passed verbally through generations

traveled through the desert with camels, North African groups who moved into areas of Spain

Desert located to the North of Africa

A muslim geographer who wrote about the court of Ghana

The first leader of Mali who put able admin. in finances, defense and foreign affairs. Also promoted trade + reestab. gold/salt trade, Mali's first great leader, he came to power after crushing a cruel, unpopular leader.

a landlocked republic in northwestern Africa

capital of empire of Mali, established by Sundiata; became an important center of commerce and trade

arabic traveler who described african societies and cultures in his travel records

a West African empire that conquered Mali and controlled trade from the 1400s to 1591

A Songhai ruler who used military conquest

Shona ppl estab., became gold trade built empire, near important trade linking gold fields with sofala

on trade routes from Red Sea in Egypt and Inner Africa, as Kush declined competition for trade routes

Axumite ruler, invaded and conquered Kush around A.D. 350; burned Meroe to the ground; made Christianity official religion of Aksum

a Bantu language with Arabic words spoken along the East African coast

one of many trading cities on the East African coast

Ghana origins, longest established trading village in Mauritania

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