Chapter 5 Africa
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- This term means grasslands
- savanna
- a triangular shaped landform made by mud and silt deposited at a rivers mouth
- delta
- a system of tracing descent through the males of the family
- patrilineal
- person who passes down customs, history, legend, art and poetry through storytelling
- griot
- on the southern border of the sahara known as "the shore of the desert"
- sahel
- a person who communicates with the spirit world
- diviner
- the relationship among family members
- kinship
- In 1235, this event marked the fall of Ghana and the end of King Sumanguru's reign while it gave rise to the kingdom of Mali
- Battle of Kirina
- honor and reverence paid to one's deceased relatives
- ancestor worship
- Mali's greatest ruler who was a devout Muslim
- Mansa Musa
- Many residents of the Sahara left the region between 5000 and 2500 B.C. because
- the climate became drier and hotter
- Nok people settled near the Niger to do all of the following EXCEPT
- work the gold mines
- Which of the following was NOT brought to West Africa by Arab traders?
- the practice of ancestor worship
- Where did most West African's live?
- in small farming villages
- The ideal crop for West Africa's wetter regions was
- rice
- The Nok people were the first West Africans to use
- iron
- What made Ghana's location good for trade?
- it was situated between the salt mines and the gold mines
- The capital city of Nok was..
- Jenne-jeno
- What were the duties of the village chief in West Africa?
- resolved disputes, acted as judges and kept order
- In Ghana, when a king died, the person named as the new king was
- the King's sister's son
- As Africans left the Sahara to find better farm land, they settled along the banks of the
- Niger River
- Less than 100 years after Ghana's defeat, the most powerful kingdom, in Africa was
- Mali
- In the 1300's European mapmakers began putting Mali on maps of Africa because of its role in
- international trade
- West Africans used different ways of farming so they could
- farm in places with different types of land or climate
- If a clan owed money to another clan, it could repay its debt by sending
- some members out to other clan as temporary slaves