Chp 2 Civilizations of Africa Vocab
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- contact
- communication or connection unique
- Songhai
- a powerful kingdom of the W. African savanna
- city-state
- a city that is also a separate, independent state
- Kilwa
- one of many trading cities on the E. African coast
- migration
- movement from one country or region to settle in another
- Great Zimbabwe
- a powerful SE African city
- Mali
- a rich kingdom of the W. African savanna
- conquer
- to get possession of by force
- Swahili
- a Bantu language w/ Arabic words, spoken along the E. African coast
- technique
- a way of doing something
- adapt
- to become accustomed to a new situation
- oral history
- accounts of the past that people pass down by word of mouth
- Bantu
- a large grp. of central & so. Africans who speak related languages
- traditional
- coming from customs handed down through time
- clan
- a grp. of families who trace their roots to the same ancestor
- province
- a political region of a country
- Ile-Ife
- the capital of a kingdom of the W. African rain forest
- environment
- natural surroundings
- Benin
- a kingdom of the W. African rain forest independent
- Ghana
- the first W. African kingdom based on the gold and salt trade
- Sahara
- huge desert stretching across most of No. Africa
- Savanna
- an area of grassland with scattered trees & bushes
- Mansa Musa
- king of Mali in the 1300s
- convert
- to cause someone to change a belief
- Aksum
- an important E. African center of trade
- stability
- the condition of being solid & steady