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Ch 11 vocab and comprehension questions
Term | Definition |
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migration | the movement from one country or region to settle in another |
Bantu | a large group of central and southern Africans who speak related langauges |
savanna | an area of grassland with scattered trees and bushes |
Sahara | a huge desert stretching across most of North America |
oral history | accounts of the past that people pass down by word of mouth |
clan | a group of families who trace their roots to the same ancestor |
describe the main physical feature of Africa | |
how do Africa's physical features affect people's ways of life? | |
over how many years did the Bantu migrations occur? | |
tell what happened when the Bantu met other African peoples. | |
Why are the Bantu migrations an important part of African history? | |
Mansa Musa | a king of Mali in the 1300s |
Mali | a rich kingdom of the West African savanna |
Ghana | the first West African kingdom based on the gold and salt trade |
Songhai | a powerful kingdom of the West African savanna |
Ile-Ife | the capital of a kingdom of the West African rain forest |
Benin | a kingdom of the West African rain forest |
What were the names of the three major kingdoms of the West African savanna? | |
what made each of the three kingdoms rich? | |
what do the powerful countries of today have in common with these kingdoms? | |
describe some of the art objects that the people of Ile-Ife and Benin left behind. | |
Why are these objects among the few things that have survived from these cultures? | |
Kilwa | one of many trading cities on the East African coast |
Aksum | an important East African center of trade |
city-state | a city that is also a separate, independent state |
Swahili | a Bantu language with Arabic words, spoken along the East African Coast |
Great Zimbabwe | a powerful southeast African city |
what change did King Ezana of Aksum make in the AD 300s? | |
What are some of the most famous sites of Ethiopia today? | |
How are these famous sites related to the changes made by King Ezana? | |
What connection was there between Great Zimbabwe and Kilwa? | |
How did the locations of Kilwa and Greast Zimbabwe make them powerful and rich? |