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Geography 8 (12)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| arid | dry |
| Niger River | West Africa's major river |
| basin | lower area of land drained by a river and its tributaries |
| Lake Chad | Water level changes, more water is being taken out than replaced |
| Nigeria | top 10 in the world for oil |
| Blood diamonds | diamonds that are gotten illegally |
| Herders | were called bantu, moved all the time |
| Shepherds | were often called "dirty" |
| Bantu | big group of people, have moved |
| Ghana | based on gold |
| Mansa Musa | advertised for Mali |
| freetown, Sierra Leone | known for slave trade |
| Liberia | unique history for freed american slaves |
| Imperialism | seizing other places to make an empire |
| Ghana leads the way (1957) | First empire, first independent country |
| Hausa + Igbo | from Nigeria |
| animists | believers in 'spirits' that inhabit things |
| Yoruba | Southwest group (Niger river) |
| Igbo | Southeast group (democratic) |
| Hausa | North group (largest) |
| fufu | yam paste |
| kente | colorful, handwoven Ghanaian cloth |
| kinship | like family relations |
| Nuclear family | Parents and their children |
| Salt | super important, traded for gold |
| Pigeon | When religion is mixed together |
| Nigeria's Capital | Lagos |
| EBOLA | a virus, fever, internal bleeding, posable death |