History Ch10
Terms
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- Red Sea
- a narrow sea between Arabia and northeastern Africa.
- Morocco
- a country in northwestern Africa on the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.
- Mount Kilimanjaro
- the tallest mountain in Africa, located in northeastern Tanzania.
- Niger River
- a river flowing from western Africa into the Gulf of Guinea.
- Mali
- African empire that flourished between the 1200s and 1400s; a present-day country in West Africa.
- Zamzilar
- an important Swahili city-state and trading center beween 1100 and 1500; an island port in Tanzania in the Indian Ocean.
- Mansa Musa
- Emperor of Mali from 1312 to 1337, when the kingdom was at its peak of wealth and power.
- Aksum
- a powerful African kingdom and trading center, about 350-900, located in what is today Ethiopia.
- Queen Amanishakhete
- Queen of Kush whose lavish tomb at Meroe reflects the richness of the kingdom of Kush.
- Ghana
- an empire located at the Southwestern edge of the Sahara Desert.
- Songhai
- the most powerful empire in West Africa from about 1490 to 1590.
- Timbuktu
- a trade and cultural center of the Songhai empire in the 1400s; a present-day town in the West African country of Mali.
- Mogadishu
- a coastal city that dominated Africa gold trade between about 1100 and 1300; the present-day capital of Somalia.
- supply
- available quantity of good, product or resource.
- Ethiopia
- a country in eastern Africa.
- Mombasa
- an important Swahili city-state and trading center between 1100 and 1500; the main part of Kenya on the Indian Ocean.
- Sahara Desert
- the largest desert in the world, covering most of northern Africa.
- Sofala
- a seaport village in eastern Mozanbique; in the 1300s, an important trading center for the gold miners of Great Zimbabwe.
- Lalibela
- Zagwe king who ruled Ethiopia from about A.D. 1185 to 1225.
- Great Rift Valley
- a series of cliffs and canyons caused by powerful prehistoric earthquakes that extends from Mozambique in Southeastern Africa north to the Red Sea.
- Kush
- ancient kingdom in northeastern Africa, conquered by Egypt.
- Zambezi River
- a river in southern Africa, flowing east through Zimbabwe and Mozambique into the Indian Ocean.
- griot
- oral historian and musician who became important in Western Africa in the 1500s and still carries on oral traditions today.
- Sunjata
- king of Mai who conquered all of Ghana.
- Savanna
- a broad, grassy, plain with few trees, found especially in large parts of Africa.
- Sahel
- the dry, grassy region south of the Sahara Desert, extending from Senegal to the Sudan.
- demand
- people's desire for a particular item.
- Great Zimbabwe
- a city in Southern Africa that rose to power in the 1300s through gold mining and trading.