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23 Cards in this Set
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Bantu
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A family of languages spoken in many parts of Africa
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Village
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the basic social and economic unit in early Africa
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Meroe
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Following the Assyrian invasion, the kingdom of Kush was reorganized around a new capital at ___________
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Aksum
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The rival state of Kush that took over control of the Red Sea trade routes into Egypt and the African interior as Kush declined
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trade
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The economy of the early societies in East Africa was based on _______
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Swahili
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Many East Africans were bound together by a culture based on trade and this language
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gold
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A major export from central Africa...mined along the Zambezi
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Ghana, Mali, and Songhay
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The 3 most important societies that developed in West Africa between Lake Chad and the Atlantic Ocean
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Timbuktu
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a capital of the West African kingdom of Mali...an important center of Muslim learning
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Mississippi
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Worlds greatest river systems...North America.....South America
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Asia
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Original inhabitants of the Americas migrated from
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Bering Strait
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How people got from Asia to America
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Olmec, Toltec, Aztec
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in Mexico
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Maya
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in Central America
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Inca
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in the Andes in South America
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adobe
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sun-dried brick used by the Pueblo to build dwellings
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linguist
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Scholar who studies languages
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Chinampas
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Floating artificial island on which Aztecs farmed
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quipu
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kind of knotted string developed by the Inca to keep records and to assist the memory
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Savanna
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Vast area of relatively dry grasslands
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Matrilineal
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Type of society that traces ancestors through mothers rather than through fathers
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Jungle
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Thick growth of plants found in a tropical rain forest
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Tepees
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cone-shaped tents made out of Buffalo hides by the Plains People
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