History ch8 Vocab
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- Ezana
- brought Christianity into Aksum and made it the official religion
- Griots
- storytellers who kept Africa's histories alive through the oral tellings
- Animism
- religion in which spirits are involved in regulating daily life
- Savannas
- grassy plains in Africa, 40% of continent
- Desertification
- spread of desert into areas where there was not desert
- Push-Pull factors
- reasons for a group or culture moving
- Bantu
- 1/3 of Africans speak it, group who migrated for centuries spreading their language and customs
- Aksum
- southern neighbors of Kush, conquered Kush, kingdom in modern day Ethiopia, Legend- Dynasty from Solomon and Queen of Sheba, hub of trade from Egypt, Asia, India, and Rome
- Kalahari
- a desert in southern Africa
- Nok
- West Africa's earliest known culture
- Terraces
- type of farming used by the people of Aksum, step like pattern
- Sahel
- area between the Sahara and fertile region to the south, moving down, arid
- Migration
- a permanent move from one region to another
- Djenne-Djeno
- ancient city located on a tributary of the Niger River in West Africa