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Chapter 8
African Civilizations
Term | Definition |
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Sahara | One of the largest deserts in the world |
Sahel | An African region along the southern border of the Sahara |
Savannas | Flat, grassy plains |
Animism | the belief that spirits are present in animals,plants, and other natural objects |
Griots | West African storyteller |
Nok | An African people who lived in what is now Nigeria between 500 B.C and A.D. 200 |
Djenne-Djeno | Oldest known city in Africa south of the Sahara |
Migration | the act of moving from one place to settle in another |
Push-pull factors | conditions that draw people to another location (pull factors) or cause people to leave their homelands and migrated to another region (push factors) |
Bantu-speaking peoples | the speakers of a related group of languages who, beginning about 2,000 years ago, migrated from West Africa into most of the southern half of Africa |
Aksum | an African kingdom, in what is now Ethiopia and Eritrea, that reached the heights of its power in the fourth century |
Ezana | a strong ruler who expanded the Aksum kingdom |
Terraces | a new form of agriculture in Aksum, in which stepped ridges constructed on mountain slopes help retain water and reduce erosion |