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kinship |
a connection among people by blood,marriage,or adoption. |
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clan |
a group of people related by blood or marriage (common) |
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labor specialization |
the doing of specific types of work by trained or knowledge workers |
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griot |
an official storyteller in an african civilization |
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vegetation zone |
a region that,because of its soil and climate,has distinctive types of plants.(plants) |
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sahara |
a large desert of northern africa,stretching from the atlantic coast to the nile valley.(desert) |
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savannah |
a flat grassland,with few trees,in a tropical region(grassland) |
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ghana |
a region between the sahara and the forests of southern west africa,which was home to many ancient cultures(region,sahara and forest) |
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almoravids |
a north african islamic dynasty that tried to forcibly convert neighboring peoples,including those of morocco,spain,and Ghana.(dynasty) |
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mali |
a west african empire established by the malinke people.(malinke empire) |
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sundiata |
an ancient ruler of the malinke people,who captured the capitol of ghana and greatly expanded the empire.(malinke leader/ruler) |
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timbuktu |
a city of central mali in west africa,which was founded in the 13th century and was a center of a trade and culture(mali city) |
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mansa musa |
an emperor of mali who made a famous pilgrimage to mecca in ad 1324(mali king) |
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songhai |
a west african people whose leaders created empire in the 15th and 16th centuries.(west african great empire) |
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askia muhammad |
the ruler of songhai empire from ad 1493 to 1528,who expanded the empire and organized its government.(songhai ruler) |
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bantu migrations |
a movement,beginning sometime around 1000 bc,of bantu speaking peoples from west africa to the south and east,spreading their languages and cultures.(bantu movement) |
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kilwa |
an ancient city-state on the eastern coast of africa,settled by people from iran and arabia,that started to prosper in the late ab 1200s(city state) |
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swahili |
an african language that blends bantu and arabic elements(languages) |
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shona |
a bantu-speaking culture that was thriving in what is now the countries of botswanna,mozambique,and zimbabwe by ad 1000(bantu limbopo river) |
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great zimbabwe |
the central settlement of the shona empire in africa,enclosed by a large stone wall,covering more than 100 acres,and having a population of 10,000 to 20,000.(central shona) |
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great enclosure |
the largest of the three main sections of the shona settlement of great zimbabwe-likely a royal residence.(great zimbabwe) |
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mutapa |
an ancient kingdom in what is now the country of zimbabwe,established by a shona king around ad 1440,also a ruler of this kingdom.(ancient zimbabwe) |
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kongo |
an ancient kingdom along the western coast of Africa,settled by the bantu-speaking kongo people sometime before the 14th century ad.(bantu kingdom) |
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mbanza |
the capital city of the ancient african kingdom of kongo(capital kongo) |
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alfonso I |
a king o fkongo whose rule began in ad 1506,he was influenced by the portugese and participated in the slave trade(kongo ruler) |
