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23 Cards in this Set
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Savannas
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Vast grasslands dotted with trees
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Bantu languages
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Niger - Korodofianian group of languages spoken in south Africa
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Tsetse fly
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Carries the sleeping sickness
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Oral traditions
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stories, songs, poems. Things that maintain a cultures history
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Griots
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Oral historians
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Kush
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South of the Nile vally, formaly Nubians, Conqured Egypt
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Aksum
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ancient kingdom in what is now Ethiopia
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Piankhi
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The kashite ruler conquered Memphis
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Stela
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Carved stone pillars used to record history
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Ezana
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Converted into Christianity, laid foundation of Ethiopia Church and collected tribute
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Trans-Saharant trade
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Trade routes that connected N&W Africa so goods could be sent across the Sarah Desert
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Carthaginian Empire
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Northern African Empire. Very dependent on trade
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Roman North Africa
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When North Africa Was under Roman Rule.
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Baal Hammon
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Most important God of the Carthiginians
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Tanit
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Most important Goddess of the Carthiginians
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Coptic Church
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Christian church that arose in Egypt later on split from the Roman catholic church
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Aurelius Augustinus
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Father of the Christian doctrine - St. Augustine of Hippo
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Nok culture
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Large scale state in West Africa formed in A.D. 300's
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Ghana
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Best known large - scale states in West Africa
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Ethiopia
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Strong kingdom emerging in high ends of North East Africa
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Tunka Manin
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Most powerful of the Ghania Rulers
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Proto-Bantu
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The "Parent" of all the Banta languages
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Iobola
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"Bridewealth" a payment of cattle a man gives to his brides family
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