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Employment opportunities
________ may dry up, creating unemployment and poverty.
Experts
________ believe that agriculture in Africa probably began by 6000 B.C.
Scientists
________ can piece together a picture of life in West Africa as early as 500 B.C.
Settlements
________ expanded because reliable food supplies led to longer, healthier lives and an increased birth rate.
Kingdom of Aksum
The ________ reached its height between A.D. 325 and 360, when a strong ruler named Ezana occupied the throne.
Aksum
________ was the only known African kingdom to have developed a written language.
Environmental conditions
________ may change, causing famine or depleted natural resources.
humans
The first ________ appeared in the Great Rift Valley, a deep gash in the Earths crust that runs through the floor of the Red Sea and across eastern Africa.
port city of Adulis
What was particularly cosmopolitan? Answer with a single words or term.
Nok artifacts
________ have been found in an area stretching for 300 miles between the Niger and Benue rivers.
Few African societies
________ had written languages.
oldest objects
The ________ found there dated from 250 B.C,
Animism
________: a religion in which spirits play an important role in regulating daily life.
Migration
________: a permanent move from one country or region to another.
Redistribution of the population
There were effects to migration, both positive and negative: ________ may change population density.
Evidence of Iron production
________ was dated to around 500 B.C.
Terraces
This increased the productivity of their land. ________ helped the soil retain water and prevented its being washed downhill in heavy rains.
Grain
To survive the dry land many moved east into the Nile Valley and south into West Africa. Some also moved to the savannas. ________ grew well in the savannas.
Scientists
________ discovered hundreds of thousands of artifacts.
Aksum
Eventually ________ became isolated from other Christian settlements.
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