chapter 2 vocab- S.S.
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- oral history
- accounts of the past that people pass down by word of mouth
- Songhai
- a powerful kingdom of the west african savanna
- Mansa Musa
- a king of mali in the 1300s
- Migration
- the movementfrom one country or region to settle in another
- Sahara
- a huge desert streching across most of north africa
- Swahili
- a bantu language arabic words, spoken along to east african coast
- Ile-Ife
- the capital of a kingdom of the west african rainforest
- city-state
- a city that is also an seperate, independent state
- Ghana
- the first west african kingdom based on the gold and salt trade
- Great Zimbabwe
- a powerful southeast african city
- savanna
- an area of grassland with scattered trees and bushes
- Mali
- a rich kingdom of the west african savanna
- clan
- a groupof families who trace their roots to the same ancestor
- Aksum
- an important east african center of trade
- Kilwa
- one of the many trading cities on the east african coast
- Benin
- a kingdom of the west african rainforest
- Bantu
- a large group of central and southern africans who speak related languages