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Africa Vcb.
Term | Definition |
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Sahara | One of the largest deserts in Africa. |
Savanna | A flat grassy plain. |
Desert | A dry barren wasteland. |
Mediterranean Region | Areas in Africa that have fertile land and mild climates. |
Desertification | The process of which fertile soil becomes desert. |
Animism | The belief that everything has a soul. |
Griot | A West African story-teller |
Migration | The movement from one place to another. |
Bantu | The speakers of a related group of languages, who, beginning about 2,000 years ago, migrated from West Africa to South Africa. |
Lineage | The decent from a common ancestor. |
Stateless Society | Cultural groups in which authority is shared by lineages of equal power instead of being exercised by a centralized government. |
Patrilineal | Relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the father. |
Matrilineal | Relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother. |
Mansa Musa | The ruler after Sundiata— Was Muslim. |
Sundiata | Mali's first great leader |
Ibn Battuta | A traveler and historian. |
Swahili | A language that is Arabic and Bantu blended together. |