Social Studies
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- city-state
- a city that is also a seprate, independant state
- Mali
- a rich kingdom of the west African savana
- Aksum
- An important east African center of trade
- migration
- the movement from one country or region to another
- Kilwa
- one of the many trading cities on the east African coast
- Great Zimbabwe
- a powerful southeast African city
- Mansa Musa
- a king of the Mali in 1300's
- Benin
- a kingdom in the west Africa rain forest
- clan
- a group of families who trace down their roots to the same ancestor
- Songhai
- a powerful kingdom of the West African savana
- Ghana
- the first West African kingdom based on the gold and salt trade
- Sahara
- a huge desert stretching across most of North Africa
- Swahili
- a Bantu language with Arabic words, it is spoken along the east African coast
- oral history
- accounts of the past that people pass down by the word of mouth
- Bantu
- a large group of central and southern africa who speak related languages
- savana
- an area of grassland with scattered trees and bushes
- Ile-Ife
- the capital of the kingdom of the west African rain forest