Untitled Flashcards Set

Sahara Desert

Covers most of Northern Africa.

Matrilineal

A system of tracing ancestry through the maternal line.

Tse Tse fly

The most deadly critter in much of Africa.

Push factors

Reasons for migration such as unemployment, slavery, and religious persecution.

Berber trader

A trader traveling from Fez (Morocco) to Timbuktu (Mali) through Gao.

Songhai

The last major empire of West Africa before its decline.

Rafiki

Swahili word for 'friend'.

Christian invasion

Southern Africa

Sonkina word for 'War Chief'

The term corresponds to Mali.

Bantu

Literally means 'human'.

Common features of Nok, Djenné-Djeno, and Bantu-speaking people

They all had iron working skills.

Impact of agriculture on early Africans

Population began to grow and permanent villages developed.

Trans-Sahara trade route

Most known for trading gold and salt.

Main trading item from Wangara

Gold.

Nzinga of Ndongo

Fought against the Portuguese.

Aksum

NOT a kingdom of West Africa.

Nok

NOT a kingdom in East Africa.

First Christian Kingdom in East Africa

Aksum.

Timbuktu

Known for trade, mosques, and universities.

Kingdoms using Red Sea and Nile River

Aksum.

Ghana, Mali, and Songhai

Developed along the Niger River.

Mansa Musa

Practiced Islam and took a Hajj to Mecca.

Great Zimbabwe walls

Built without mortar.

Adulis capture by Muslims

Cut off Aksum's trade influence.

Great Zimbabwe abandonment

Historians do not know why it was abandoned.

Order of West African Kingdoms

Ghana, Mali, Songhai.

Transportation through the Sahara

Camels.

East African Kingdom in modern Ethiopia

Aksum

Climate with trees and grassland

Savanna.

Tallest Mountain in Africa

Mt. Kilimanjaro.

Massai culture

Known for pastoral ways and vertical jumping.

Songhai leader who expanded the empire

Askia Muhammad.

Southern and East Coast culture influence

Bantu.

Yoruba belief about earth formation

Formed with sand and a chicken.

City of Mali with Islamic learning centers

Timbuktu.

Language from Bantu traders on the coast

Swahili.

Ocean used by Great Zimbabwe for trade

Indian Ocean.

Early African Kingdom religious belief

Animism, the belief that all things have a spirit.

Voodoo religion origin

Developed from Benin.

Caravan

A group of merchants and camels crossing the desert.

Berbers

Islamic traders from North Africa who controlled the salt trade.

Sundiata

Founder of the Empire of Mali.

Wealthiest man of all time

Mansa Musa.

Griot

A storyteller who passes down history orally.

Study of Africa's history

Africa has a rich history and should be studied.