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20 Cards in this Set
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the great river that dominates the region of africa, "the hump of africa"
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niger
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found the ruins of great zimbawae
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karl mauch
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they distinctinvley carved stone pillars used to make the boms of axum kings
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stelae
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often served a religious fnxn and employed strong motifs or repeated beats
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african music
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the earliest form of surviving arch. in africa
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pyramids
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the spread of islam in africa interfered with the effors of african rules to strengthen their power
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false
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was an ancient practice that used people for a range of tasks
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slavery
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the southern africa state of zimbawae maintained no significant role in the gold trade w/ the swahili states to the east
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false
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overwhelmed the fortress at marrakech in 1,000
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san
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the basic level of african social grouping
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lineage group
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local driefta of a mali farming village
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mansa
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as a language, it employed banta grammar and arabic linguistic terms
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swahili
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the family of lang. spoken by people who inhibit the region of c.a. south of sahara
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bantu
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may have intro. yams and bananas to africa
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malayan traders and settlers
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malay settlements on an island
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madagascar
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adopted form of christianity practiced in egypt
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ethiopia
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originally a colony of the kingdom of sheba in the arabian penn.
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axum
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over exploitaion of a farmland, shift in trade routes from the red sea, contributed to the kingdom of
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axum
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4 settlements that began to the coastal islands of east africa were mombassa, pemba, zanzibar, and
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kilua
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trade w/ the 1st empire was 1st transported by
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donkey caravans
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