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Largest desert region of N. Africa from the Atlantic to Red Sea, small part sand dunes & large part flat, gray wasteland of rock & gravel(pavement).
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What is the Sahara?
p.213 |
Desertification is causing the southern edge to extend yearly into Sahel region of N. Africa
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Land located at S. edge of Sahara Desert of flat, gray wasteland & gravel.
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What is the Sahel?
p. 213. |
land becoming desert in southern edge of Sahara
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Grassy plains w/ some mountainous highlands & swampy tropical stretches.
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What is the Savannah?
p.215. |
covers 40% of Africa dotted w/ trees & grass covered; has thin topsoil due to alternating dry & rainy seasons
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The belief that spirits are present in animals, plants, and other natural objects.
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What is Animism?
p.216. |
African peoples are monotheistic with beliefs that spirits are present in all things & nature and take the form of souls of their ancestors.
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A West African storyteller.
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What is a Griot?
p.216. |
These storytellers kept the tribes history alive through oral history parent to child & generation to generation
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An African people who lived in what is now Nigeria between 500B.C.to A.D.200. First Africans to smelt iron for tools & weapons.
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Who were the Nok?
p. 217. |
Earliest known African culture inhabited lands between Niger & Benue rivers.
Made sculptures of terra cotta w/ "elongated style" |
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An ancient trade city uncovered by archaeologists in 1977; located on a Niger River tributary who made pottery, copper hair ornaments, clay toys, glass beads, stone bracelets & iron knives.
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What is Djenne-Djeno?
p. 219. |
Ruled from 250 B.C. to A.D. 1100 in W. Africa; built round reed houses of mud & thatch, fished, herded cattle, & raised rice in floodplains; imported copper, gold, & salt from other Niger River tribes.
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The act of moving from one place to settle in another.
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What is Migration?
pp. 62, 220 |
This occurs from environmental, economic, & political factors.
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Conditions that draw people to another location or cause people to leave their home lands and migrate to another region.
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What are Push-Pull Factors?
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ex. abundant land, safety, freedom or conversely little land, war, & bondage/political controls
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Groups of people living in the savannah region south of Sahara (now SE Nigeria) who
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Who were the Bantu-Speaking Peoples?
p.223. |
Believed to descend from Noks, method of slash & burn farming forced their continuous movement along Congo River & rain forests.
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Legend traces the Ethiopian Dynasty and this Kingdom to the son of Solomon & Queen of Sheba which lasted until 20th C. until their last ruler Haile Selassie died in 1975. Under Zoskales (1st ruler) it seized lands along Red Sea & Blue Nile in Africa.
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What was Aksum?
p. 225. |
Kingdom in present day Eritrea & Ethiopia which exhanged ivory for silk,spices, leading to colonies of farmers & traders. Used terraces, irrigation canals, dams, cysterns, stone building w/o mortar, & Steles (stone pillars)
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Aksum's chief seaport near Massawa recieved traders from Egypt, Persia, India, & Roman Empire trading for salt, rhino horns, tortoise shells, emeralds & gold.
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What was Adulis?
p. 226. |
Exported cloth, glass, wine, olive oil, iron , & copper.
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Ruled Aksum between A.D. 325 and 360 as a strong, authoritative ruler who conquered (p.d.) Yemen on Arabian Peninsula & Kush Kingdom in 330A.D.
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What was Ezana?
p. 226. |
Conquered the Kushites and burned capital of Meroe to ground.
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Steplike ridges constructed on mountain slopes to help soil retain water and prevent erosion of soil is heavy rains.
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What are Terraces?
p. 228. |
step-like ridges on steep slopes that reduce erosion & promote soil productivity
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