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38 Cards in this Set
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Kinship |
A connection among people by blood, marriage, or adaption |
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Clans |
Kinship groups with common ancestor formed larger groups |
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Labor Specialization |
some people foucs on specific types of work |
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Griots |
Oral Tradition stortellers |
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Vegetation zone |
A region that has a certain type of plants |
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Sahara |
Large Desert in the Northern secction of west Africa |
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Savannah |
The middle section if west Africa, grassland, tropical region |
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Ghana |
Region between the Sahara and the forests of southern west Africa |
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Almoravids |
A muslim group |
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Mali |
Empire that was formed in the southern area of what had been Ghana |
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Sundiata |
The Malinke were led by a great chief Called Sundiata |
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Timbuktu |
Sundial developed a city as a centre of trade and culture |
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Mansa Musa |
Most famous king Devoted to islam |
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Songhai |
Newly conquered regions of Mali empire began to rebel |
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Askia Muhammed |
A leader that wanted to seize the throne |
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Bantu Mirgation |
Movement from one place to another began one of the most important migrations in history |
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Kilwa |
One of the most important costal-state |
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Swahili |
Arabs and africans creation of a new language |
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Shona |
Bantu-specking group |
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Great Zimbabwe |
The centre of the shona empire |
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Great Enclosure |
The largest and most significant |
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Mutape |
Name of the rulers and kingdom |
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Kongo |
Bantu speaking people known as kongo settled along the western coast of Africa |
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Mbanza |
The centre of the kongo kingdom was its capital |
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Afonso I |
New king followed Portuguese ways |
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Mesoamerica |
Middle America, Between the U.S. and south America |
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Yucatán Peninsula |
A widened Lowland, and divides Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico |
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Elevation |
One of the greatest Influences on climate |
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Slash and burn Agriculture |
Farmers cleared the land by cutting down trees, they burned the fallen trees and used the ashes to down trees |
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Maize |
Corn |
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Cacao |
A type of tree that grow well in moist, ho tropical climates |
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Maya |
Consists of groups of Mesoamerica people who speak various forms of the mayan language |
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Stele |
large stone monuments |
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Pacal II |
One of the greatest mayan kings |
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Codex |
This paper was screen-folded to from a type of book called codex |
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Tenochtitlán |
A City The aztecs built |
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Montezuman II |
Harsh Demanding ruler who wanted more tribute and victims for sacrifice |
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Hernán Cortés |
Spanish expedition |