Africa
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- Swahili city-states
- City states that were created from the trade roughts. Also a language called Swahili.
- Timbuktu
- The biggest city of the Mali empire which was located at the crossroads of major trade roughts.
- Ship-to-shore trading
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- Berbers
- A group of poeple that lived in north Africa
- Mansa Musa
- A king of the Mali empire who brought the empire to its height.
- Sundiata
- A boy who at first was thought of as week but later rose to create the Mali empire.
- Middle Passage
- This is the rought of the slaves which were brought from Africa to America.
- Kingdom of Songhai
- An empire located in north Africa partially overlapping the mormer Mali empire. The last great empire of north Africa.
- Ghana
- A country formerly under Brithish control which was known as the gold coast.
- Mali
- A desert covered country in north Africa which is scarecly populated
- Zimbabwe
- A landlocked country in Africa known for their advanced stone buildings and walls.
- Ethiopia
- This is Africas second largest country located in Eastern Africa.
- Bantu Migration
- When the people who spoke the languge of Bantu, migrated further north.
- Triangular trade
- A trade between Africa, America, and Europe. The Africans supplied slaves to America, the American sent raw materials to the Europeans, and the Europeans sent guns and rum to Africa.
- Savanna
- a flat grassland with trees and tall grasses
- Axum
- A major trading city named from the empire of Axum.
- Asante Kingdom
- Located where present day Ghana is located, and was formed in the 1700's.
- Factory Forts
- The forts which held raw materials including slaves and gold, moslty in Europe.
- Trans Saharan Trade
- The trade route that streches across the Sahara desert