Africa Term List
World History I- Africa Term List
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- Timbuktu
- City on the Niger River in the modern country of Mali. It was founded by the Tuareg as a seasonal camp sometime after 1000. As part of the Mali empire, Timbuktu became a major major terminus of the trans-Saharan trade and a center of Islamic learning (388
- Berbers
- a largely nomadic North African people
- Mansa Musa
- the greatest ruler of the kingdom of Mali, who took the throne in about 1312
- Axum
- trading center, and powerful ancient kingdom in northern present-day Ethiopia
- Triangular Trade
- colonial trade routes among Europe and its colonies, the West Indies, and Africa in which goods were exchanged for slaves
- Zimbabwe
- a landlocked republic in south central Africa formerly called Rhodesia
- Asante Kingdom
- kingdom that emerged in the 1700's in present-day Ghana and was active in the slave trade
- Ship-to-shore trading
- The trade is first put on a boat and then it is brought to shore to be traded.
- Factory Forts
- Forts that were designed to make certain products.
- Savanna
- grass plain with irregular patterns of rainfall
- Bantu Migrations
- migrated between about 1000 B.C. and A.D. 1000 (West African farmers and herders)
- Kingdom of Ghana
- early West African kingdom located in parts of present-day Mauritania and Mali
- Trans-Saharan Trade
- Trading gold for salt, it was carried/transported North/South across the Sahara Desert, and it was also controlled by the Berbers (used camels to transport)
- Ethiopia
- ancient Greek term for Axumite kingoml; present-day country in east Africa
- Swahili City-States
- states in Swahili
- Kingdom of Mali
- medieval West African trading empire located in present-day Mali
- Sundiata
- a sickly boy regarded as too weak to be a threat. By 1235, Sundiata had crushed his enemies, won control over gold trade routes, and founded the empire Mali
- Kingdom of Songhai
- medieval west African kingdom located in present-day Mali, Niger, and Nigeria
- Middle Passage
- the leg of the triangular trade route on which slaves were transported from Africa to the Americas