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6 Hist Ch 12 BJU HS
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1. linguistics 2. botany 3. archaeology 4. oral history | 4 ways (other than written records) of learning about people and their history 1. spoke Swahili 2. were Muslim |
| 1. spoke Swahili 2. were Muslim | 2 similarities of the independent cities of eastern Africa's coast |
| Aksum | King Ezana made Christianity the official religion of _______________ |
| Bantu | early African people; linguists traced their migration route from the Benue River to southern Africa |
| because Sunni Ali first led the fight for its independence and then conquered the cities in the area | Why did the city of Songhai become an empire? |
| because the Malian king (Mansa Musa) gave away so much gold | Why did the price of gold drop in the region where Mansa Musa traveled? |
| botanist | scientists who study plants. Can trace the movements of people by their crops |
| by common language | how do historians divide Africa's early peoples into groups? |
| camel | Taureg's most valuable possession |
| clan | a group of families descended from a common ancestor |
| click | Bushmen & Khoikhoi spoke unusual _____________ languages |
| desert | a region with few plants that receives less than ten inches of rain a year. |
| Dutch & English | two groups of people who came to the southern tip of Africa |
| gold mines | because _________ were located south of Ghana, Ghana could control all the trade of salt & gold |
| griot | an African storyteller |
| he was a devout Muslim | Why did Mansa Musa make a pilgrimage to Mecca? |
| Islam | Arabian merchants brought this religion to Ghana |
| it was near the only source of water for miles around | Why was Ghana's location ideal? |
| linguistics | the study of the structure and changes of languages |
| Mwene Mutapa | the ancestors of the Shona |
| oasis | a fertile area in the desert with water. |
| oral history | stories about the past that are spoken instead of written |
| Pygmies | people of small stature who lived in the rain forest of the Congo basin |
| rain shadow desert | forms when the wind blows the water vapor high into nearby mountains without allowing rain to fall on the lowlands |
| rainforest | a tropical forest filled with huge trees and vines and a large variety of wildlife; receives annual rains of one hundred inches or more |
| regions (northern, western, central, eastern, & southern) | to study Africa, Geographers organize (divide) Africa by ______________ |
| savanna | area with tall grasses and few trees |
| study the map on pg. 187 of your student activity manual | study the map on pg. 187 of your student activity manual |
| Sundiata | the strong ruler of Mali known as the Lion King |
| the eager faith with which the Jews should have welcomed Him | Jesus used the queen of Sheba as an example of ______________________________________________________________________ |
| the Great Zimbabwe | a city of stone-slab buildings that was home to the Great Enclosure |
| the number of cattle they owned | Maasai measured their wealth and social standing by |
| Timbuktu | Songhai center of Islamic faith & learning was located in ______________________ |
| to prove their manhood | Why did Maasai warriors participate in ceremonies? |
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