Africa term list
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- Triangular trade
- colonial trade routes among Europe and its colonies, the West Indies, and Africa in which goods were exchanged for slaves
- Timbuktu
- had becom a leading center of learning by the 1400s, the Sankore Mosque (University of Timbuktu), was built there.
- Kingdom of Songhai
- medieval West African kingdom located in present-day Mali, Niger, and Nigeria
- savana
- grassy plain with irregular patterns of rainfall
- Factory Forts
- Factories that help with raw materials and things to be traded and held.
- Sundiata
- won contol of the gold trade routes and founded the empire of Mali
- Swahili City-States
- part of Swahili: an East African culture that emerged about 1000 A.D.; also a Bantu-based language, blending Arabic words and written in Arabic script
- Kingdom of Mali
- Medieval West African trading empire located in present-day Mali
- Kingdom of Ghana
- Early West-African trading kingdom located in parts of present-day Mauritania and Mali
- Trans-Saharan trade
- In the 400s, people of West Africa traded among themselves for many centuries.
- Zimbabwe
- massive stone ruins, means stone houses, built by a succession of Bantu-speaking peoples who settled in the region betweem 900 and 1500, stone enclosures protected their livestock
- Berbers
- largely nomadic Noth African people, conquered by Muslim Arabs
- Axum
- trading center, and powerful ancient kingdom in northern present-day Ethiopia
- Ethipoia
- ancient Greek term for Axumite kingdom; present-day country in East Africa
- Asante Kingdom
- kingdom that emerged in the 1700s in present-day Ghana and was active in the slave trade
- Mansa Musa
- greatest ruler of the kingdom of Mali, came to the throne in 1312, expanded Mali's borders west to the Atlantic Ocean and pushed north to conquer many cities, 25-year reign, promoted religious freedom and tolerance, fulfilled one of the Five Pillars of Islam by making a pilgramage to Mecca
- Ship-to-shore trading
- A trade tactic used to enable people to import and export goods to the United States from foreign and domestic countries.
- Bantu Migrations
- inspired the Bantu religion
- Middle Passage
- the leg of the trinagular trade eoute on which slaves were transported from Africa to the Americas