Africa:Vocabulary Flashcards
Savanna
a grassy plain in tropical and subtropical regions, with few trees.
Plateau
an area of relatively level high ground.
Sahara Desert
largest hot desert in the world
Bantu
relating to or denoting a group of Niger–Congo languages spoken
Swahili
a Bantu language widely used as a lingua franca in East Africa and having official status in several countries.
Subsistence
the action or fact of maintaining or supporting oneself at a minimum level.
Mansa musa
The Riches man in the world. And still is.
Ghana
A country of West Africa
Mali
A country of western Africa. The site of several powerful states
Zimbabwe
Formerly Southern Rhodesia
Timbuktu
a town in central Mali
Mohammed
The Arab founder of Islam
Askia
Askia the Great, was an emperor, military commander, and political reformer of the Songhai Empire in the late 15th century
Sonni Ali
Sunni Ali was the first king of the Songhai Empire
Matrilineal
of or based on kinship with the mother or the female line.
Oral tradition
a community’s cultural and historical traditions passed down by word of mouth or example from one generation to another without written instruction.
Gold and salt trade
Camel caravans from North Africa carried bars of salt as well as cloth, tobacco, and metal tools across the Sahara to trading centers
Trans-Saharan
a desert in N Africa
Songhai
a member of a people living mainly in Niger and Mali.
Griot
a member of a class of traveling poets
Diviner
a person skilled in using a divining rod.
Lineage
lineal descent from an ancestor; ancestry or pedigree.
Ibn batuta
a Moroccan Muslim scholar and traveler
Indian Ocean
third largest of the world’s oceanic divisions
Sahel
ecoclimatic and biogeographic zone of transition in Africa between the Sahara to the north and the Sudanian Savanna
