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African Trading King
Term | Definition |
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Africa has a variety of different climates, vegetation, and terrain. | Diversity of topography |
The west african kingdoms became very profitable with the exchange of what two products? | Gold and salt |
What is the process that made the Sahara desert grow larger due to climate change in 2500 BC? | Desertification |
As the desert spread, what people were forced to migrate into southern Africa? | Bantu |
When they moved south they spread thier skills in farming, iron working and domestication of animals. What is this called? | Cultural diffusion |
What was the new language that formed as a combination of Bantu and Arabic? | Swahili |
What animal was used to allow people of West Africa to travel across the Sahara Desert? | camel |
The trading of salt for gold across the Sahara Desert was known as? | Trans-Saharan trade |
Along what river did the kingdoms of Ghana, Mali and Songhai develope? | The Niger river |
Who was the leader who traveled to Mecca to become a Muslim? | Mansa Musa |
What was the large trading city in the kingdom of Mali | Timbuktu |