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19 Cards in this Set
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Savanna
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flat grassland that extends across the widest part of Africa and parts of south-central Africa and the eastern coast; invites migration and cultural contacts; most important region historically
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Cheikh Anta Diop
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Senegalese scholar that argued that much western historical writing since the eighteenth century has been a european racist plot to destroy the evidence that the people of the pharaohs belonged to the Negro world
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Bantu/Bantu Migrations
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series of tribes linked by languages through which we see their history; migrations throughout the savanna, adopted mixed agriculture, and learned ironworking
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animism
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belief that a supreme being breathes into all living things and that this anima must be appeased
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trans-sahara trade
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refers to the north-south trade across the sahara by the use of camels that stimulated urban development and introduced islam
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berbers
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north africans who dominated desert trade and protected merchant caravans for a sum
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slave trade
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began as war captives; not based on race; second most valuable export
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kumbi
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largest metropolis in sudan; intellectual creativity and center for commercial life
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soninke
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warrior society north of the senegal and niger rivers that created an efficient system of irrigation; became the kingdom of ghana
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kingdom of ghana
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(see notes)
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mandinke
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society that formed the core of the new empire of mali and was in an ideal position for west african trade
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kingdom of mali
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(see notes)
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Mansa Musa
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early Africa's most famous ruler; stopped every rebellion and controlled trans-saharan trade; a devout muslim
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timbuktu
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great cosmopolitan center in northwest africa for learning and trade; racial toleration
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axum
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christian kingdom serving as the capital of ethiopia; sizable trading state
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ethiopia
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rugged empire in east africa that was influenced by the thriving religions of judaism, christianity, and islam
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kebre negast
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ethiopian national epic glorifying a line of rulers descended from king solomon
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swahili
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east african coastal culture with a strong arabic influence
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great zimbabwe
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the most powerful monument in africa south of the nile valley that was a political and religious capital of vast empire; wealth and power rested in gold trade; decline b/c of agricultural exhaustion
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