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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Kin-Based Networks | Families governed themselves |
| Swahili | Traders blended Bantu and Arabic to develop a new language |
| Zanj Rebellion | About 15,000 enslaved people successfully captured the city of Basra and held it ten years before being defeated |
| Trans-Saharan trade | A network of trade routes across the Great Desert |
| Indian Ocean Trade | Connected East Africa, Middle East, and India |
| Indian Ocean Slave Trade | High demand for enslaved workers resulted in slave trade between East Africa and Middle East |
| Great Zimbabwe | A massive wall of stone that surrounded the capita. Built without mortar. One of the most royal cities |
| Cheif | Male. Mediated conflicts and death themselves |
| Hausa Kingdoms | Now Nigeria, people formed seven states, loosely connected through kinship ties, with no central authority. |
| Ghana | Sold gold and ivory. Nestled between the Sahara and tropical rain forests of west African coast |
| Mali | Ruler was Sundiata. Cultivated a thriving gold trade in Mali |
| Zimbabwe | East Africa. Architecture showed the growing wealth of the kingdom |
| Ethiopia | Christianity had spread along the east coast of Mediterranean Sea south into Egypt and beyond |
| Animism | The belief that everything living and non-living has a spirit |
| Griots | Storytellers who conduits of history for a community |