Africa vocab words
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- sahara
- a huge desert stretching across most north africa
- migration
- the movement from one country or region to settle in another
- aksum
- an important East African center of trade
- swahili
- a Bantu language with Arabic words spoken along the East African coast
- savanna
- an area of grassland with scattered trees and bushes
- city-state
- a city that is also a seperate, independent state
- benin
- a kingdom of the West African rain forest
- great zimbabwe
- a powerful southeast African city
- clan
- a group of families who trace their roots to the same ancestor
- ghana
- the first West African kingdom based on the gold and salt trade
- kilwa
- one of many trading cities on the East African coast
- bantu
- a large group of central and southern africans who speak related languages
- songhai
- a powerful kindom of the West African savanna
- mansa musa
- a king of Mali in the 1300s
- oral history
- accounts of the past that people pass down by word of mouth
- ile-ife
- the capitol of a kingdom of the West African rain forest
- mali
- a rich kingdom of the West African savanna