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Ch. 20 Africa GWMMS
Ch. 20 Africa Shaped by History GWMMS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Colonize | To settle an area and take over its governments |
| Nationalism | A feeling of pride in one's homeland |
| Pan-Africanism | A movement formed in 1920's for unity and cooperation among all Africans |
| Leopold Sedar Senghor | A poet and political leader of Pan-Africanism. He became the first president when Senegal became independent in 1960 |
| boycott | When a group of people refuse to buy goods or services. |
| Kwame Nkrumah | An African leader who organized protests against British rule in the 1950's. |
| Quran | The holy book of the religion of Islam |
| Mansa Musa | Mali's most famous king |
| Aksum | A kingdom that was located in East Africa. It is now Ethiopia and Eritrea |
| "Ghana, Mali, and Songhai" | Three of the richest and most powerful kingdoms in West Africa |
| pilgrimage | A religious journey |
| Tombouctou | A great Muslim trading and learning center |
| Swahili | A Bantu language with some Arab mixed in developed by Muslim traders |
| city-state | A small kingdom with its own government and controls much of the surrounding land |
| Kilwa | A very rich and beatiful city-state in East Africa |
| hunter-gatherer | "The earliest humans who survived by gathering fruit, berries, and roots and hunted meat" |
| Louis Leakey | A scientist who found some of the first evidence of early humans in East Africa |
| domesticate | To adapt something for your own use |
| fertile | Containing substances needed by plants in order to grow well |
| surplus | More than is needed |
| Egypt | A kingdom that rose along the Nile in the 4000's B.C. |
| Nubia | An ancient region in North America that rose directly below Egypt |
| migrate | To move from one area to another |
| Bantu-speakers | Traders and herders who brought the Bantu language to Central and Southern Africa |
| ethnic groups | "Groups of people that share the same languages, religions, family ties, and customs" |