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Africa Flashcards

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Savanna

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It’s a low land

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Plateau

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An area of relatively level high ground

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Sahara desert

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Is the largest hot desert in the world

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Bantu

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Languages spoken in central and Southern Africa

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Swahili

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A Bantu language widely used as a lingua Franca in east Africa

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Subsistence farming

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Self sufficiency farming

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Mansa musa

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Was an emperor of of the Mali Empire during the 14th century

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Ghana

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A country of west Africa with its southern coast line

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Mali

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A country of Western Africa the site of several powerful states

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Zimbabwe

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Is a landlocked country in Southern Africa

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Timbuktu

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Town in central Mari

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Mohammed

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Is considered by Muslims to be the last messenger and prophet

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Askia

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Was an emperor,military commander,and political reformer

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Sonni Alk

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He reigned about 1494 to 1492 was the 1st king of Songhai Empire

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Matrilineal

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Of or based on kinship with the mother of the female line

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Oral tradition

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Is information passed down through the generations by word of mouth that is not written down

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Gold and salt trade

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Ghana got rich handling the trade of gold for salt

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Tran Saharan

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Africa from the North African Coast Europe to the Levant which is to do with trade

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Sub Saharan

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The trading kingdoms of West Africa

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Songhai

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A member of a people living mainly in Niger and Mali

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Griot

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A member of a class of traveling poets

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Diviner

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Of from or like god

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Lineage

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Lineal descent from an ancestor

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ibn battuta

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Was a Moroccan scholar and traveler

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Indian Ocean

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Is the 3rd largest of the world

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Sahel

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He ecoclimatic and biogeographic zone of transition in Africa between the Sahara to the north and suadanian

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