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Chapter 7 AFRICA

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what eventually became the greatest threat to the survival of all of the african kingdoms?
EUROPEANS!
multicultural
more than one type of people there
monopoly
complete ownership or control
swahili
bantu language
great simbabwe
religous and political center
literally means: "Stone house"
in karanga
karanga
had "great zimbabwe"
zanzibar
island that became trading center between africa and asia

zAnzibar is for Africa and Asia
kilwa
coastal east city state____ great trading

kilWA ..WAve on the coast where ships come in for trading
arable
land that can be farmed
matrilineal
decentants traced through mother
characteristics and purposes of african art and music
used to surve a common porpuse.
they were usefull. not just for "staring at"
bantu migrations why did this mass movement occur?
over 1,000 languages: swhalli
alll throughout africa...
they moved becuase there wasn't enough arable land
nok
metal production moved with bantu migrations
king ezana
brought christianity to axum.
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because of trade with rome..and because of "two shipprecked children"
axum
first state with christianity as offical religion
kush
previousaly nubia (sudan)
nubia
had close contact with egypt had a ton of pyramids (sudan)
great rift valley
deep 3,000 mile crack that stretches firtile land over africa
kalahari destert
southern african destert
sahara destert
largest desert
mount kilimanjaro
tallest mountian in africa
tanzania
plateau
elevated land, flat on top
Savannas
dry grassland
sahel
central plateau south of the sahara stretches accross continent
proverbs
short statements that express a simple but complicated fact
griots
people who told stories through entertainment
2 ways African history is passed down
oral
artifacts
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