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Ch 11 vocab and comprehension questions
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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? |