Geo - Africa
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- Aksum
- An important civilization in north Africa
- Great Zimbabwe
- Became the capital of a thriving gold-trading area.
- Pandemic
- An uncontrollable outbreak of aids
- Stateless Society
- the people rely on family lineages to govern themselves
- sahel
- semi-arid land between desert and grassland
- Masai
- A major ethnic group
- Goree Island
- this island served as one of the busiest points for exporting slaves during the slave trade
- Fang sculpture
- sculptures done by the fang, who live in Gabon
- rai
- a kind of music developed in the 1920s by poor urban children
- Mutapa Empire
- extended throughout all of present-day Zimbabwe expect the eastern part.
- Liberia
- stayed independent during the period of colonization because of its ties to the US
- Kilimanjaro
- highest mountain in Africa
- Olduvai Gorge
- located in northern Tanzania, home of some the oldest fossils in the world
- apartheid
- complete separation of the races in South Africa.
- Carthage
- one of the great cities of ancient North Africa
- savannah
- African grasslands
- cash crop
- food grown for direct sale
- Nelson Mandela
- emerged as one of the leaders of the ANC, and he led a long stuggle to end apartheid that resulted in his being imprisoned
- Mobutu Sese Seko
- congos leader from 1967 till 1997
- King leopold II
- Belgian king who took over Congo for its river
- Berlin Conference
- 14 European nations convened it to prevent Europeans wars over Africa
- Ethiopia
- Stayed independent during the period of colonization because of its strong leader and organized army
- Islam
- the major cultural and religious influence in North Africa
- colonization
- Africa was divided among several European nations
- Ashanti
- the people how now live in Ghana
- Bantu migrations
- migration of people through southeastern Africa as they spread their cultures