Vocab

Question 0

Griot

Answer 0

Court musician or band who sang verbal records of the history of their tribes, leaders, regions at ceremonies

Question 1

Animism

Answer 1

Belief that all nature, including freaking rocks, we’re possessed by spirits ad had souls

Question 2

Unnavigable

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Not being able to be sailed by ships or boats

Question 3

Smooth coastline

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When the coastline has few natural harbors/shallow water which is bad for trade from the sea

Question 4

Savanna

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Grassland ecosystem which makes up much of Africa w/ seasonal rains

Question 5

Bantu

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People who migrated through sub-Saharan Africa, spreading Iron Age agricultural technologies and their language

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Desertification

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The drying up of a region, obviously when a place turns into a desert you idiot

Question 7

Zanzibar

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A city and island off east coast

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Songhai

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Created from previous western African empires Ghana and Mali, TRADE w/ Arab and European

Question 9

Sankore

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Historic pyramid shaped mosque in Timbuktu

Question 10

Wangara

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Soninke clan specialized in gold trade, Islamic scholarship, and law

Question 11

Trans-Saharan trade

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Berbers transported goods by camels across NW Africa

Question 12

Zambezi

Answer 12

River in S Africa

Question 13

Zimbabwe

Answer 13

City located in sub-Saharan S Africa settled by Bantu farmers w/ gold

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Khoisan

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Unifying name of the S African San and Khoi people who share Bantu characteristics

Question 15

Matrilineal

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Kinship through the mother or female line

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Patrilineal

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Kinship through the father or male line

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Noncentralized

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Autonomous villages organized by clan and ruled by a local cheiftain or clan head

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Zimbabwe

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Powerful / prosperous state

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Zambezi

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River

Question 20

Axum

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South of Meroë, mountains near Ethiopia

Part of the Red Sea

Obelisks

Stelae pillars

Question 21

Meroë

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Capital city, south of the Nile River

Question 22

Nubia

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Region of Africa near Egypt

Question 23

Sahara

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Desert in North Africa

Question 24

Berber

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Pastoral people in North Africa , most people in Africa can trace there lineage back to Berber

Question 25

Bantu

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Farming peoples who spread the knowledge of cultivation and iron working

Question 26

Coptic

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Egyptian form of Christianity

Question 27

Nok

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Northern Nigeria, active iron working society

Question 28

Swahili

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Cosmopolitan culture and mixed ruling family

Arab words and phrases + Bantu grammatical structures (language)

Question 29

Lineage group

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A clan in African society

Question 30

Al-Maghrib

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Extent of Arab control in Africa

Question 31

Ethiopia

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Mountainous highlands near the Red Sea

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Kilwa

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Trading port, Husini Kubwa (massive, elaborate palace)

Question 33

Sahel

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Arabic for “coast” (relation to Swahili)

Capital city of Ghana

Question 34

Obelisks

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Royal grave markers

Funeral monuments

Question 35

Ghana

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One of te first great commercial states, upper Niger valley– grassland between Sahara and West African coast

Local communities united = Ghana kingdom

Question 36

Mali

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Greatest empire after the collapse of the Ghana empire

Question 37

Timbuktu

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Trading city on the Niger River

Question 38

Gao

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Fit’s royal family to convert to Islam

Question 39

Mansa Musa

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One of the most powerful kings in Mali