Africa Flashcards
Savanna
It’s a low land
Plateau
An area of relatively level high ground
Sahara desert
Is the largest hot desert in the world
Bantu
Languages spoken in central and Southern Africa
Swahili
A Bantu language widely used as a lingua Franca in east Africa
Subsistence farming
Self sufficiency farming
Mansa musa
Was an emperor of of the Mali Empire during the 14th century
Ghana
A country of west Africa with its southern coast line
Mali
A country of Western Africa the site of several powerful states
Zimbabwe
Is a landlocked country in Southern Africa
Timbuktu
Town in central Mari
Mohammed
Is considered by Muslims to be the last messenger and prophet
Askia
Was an emperor,military commander,and political reformer
Sonni Alk
He reigned about 1494 to 1492 was the 1st king of Songhai Empire
Matrilineal
Of or based on kinship with the mother of the female line
Oral tradition
Is information passed down through the generations by word of mouth that is not written down
Gold and salt trade
Ghana got rich handling the trade of gold for salt
Tran Saharan
Africa from the North African Coast Europe to the Levant which is to do with trade
Sub Saharan
The trading kingdoms of West Africa
Songhai
A member of a people living mainly in Niger and Mali
Griot
A member of a class of traveling poets
Diviner
Of from or like god
Lineage
Lineal descent from an ancestor
ibn battuta
Was a Moroccan scholar and traveler
