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Afr. Am. Chap1&2
Chap1&2 Vocab
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10th Grade
10/26/2010
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Ancient Egypt
 Definition
Earliest civilization in Africa
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Nile River Valley
 Definition
Flows from South to North
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"Gift of the Nile"
 Definition
Egyptian civilization
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Pharaoh
 Definition
Egyptian King
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Hieroglyphic
 Definition
Writing system w/pictures
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Hatshepsut
 Definition
Female Pharaoh
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Ra
 Definition
Sun God
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Osiris
 Definition
God of the Nile
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Pyramids
 Definition
pharaoh's tomb
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Giza
 Definition
Where they pyramids are
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Nubia
 Definition
South of Egypt
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Kush
 Definition
Nubian Kingdom
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Kerma
 Definition
Kush Capital
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Piankhy
 Definition
Kush King
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Meroe
 Definition
Kush Capital
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Axum
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Ethiopia
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Ancient Ghana
 Definition
1st ancient kingdom in Western Africa
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Soninke
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Founder of Ghana
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Berbers
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Indigenous to Western Africa, involved in trans-Sahara trade
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Kumbi Saleh
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Ghana's capital
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Sundiata
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Founder of Mali
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Mali
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2nd important ancient kingdom in Western Africa.
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Timbuktu
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Mali's capital
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Mansa Musa
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Most famous ruler of Mali, pilgrimed to Mecca
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Sunni Ali
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Founder of Songhai
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Songhai
 Definition
3rd most important empire in Western Africa
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Askia Muhammad Toure
 Definition
Expanded kingdom
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Askia Daud
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Ruler during peak of power of Songhai
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Gao
 Definition
Songhai Capital
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Forest Region
 Definition
Western Africa
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Nok
 Definition
Live in the Forest Region
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Akan State
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Southeast of Senegambia
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Kingdom of Benin
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Kingdom in West Africa
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Kongo
 Definition
Central Africa, wealth in iron, salt and trade
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Nzinga Mbemba
 Definition
Kongo Ruler, wanted to modernize country
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What was the source of Ghana's wealth?
 Definition
Trade, asian camel helped trans-Saharan trade
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Speculum Oris
 Definition
Hot coals or metal device to force feed slaves.
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Griots
 Definition
Oral Historians
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Antam Goncalvez
 Definition
1st European to enslave Africans and bring them to Europe
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Ruy de Siqueria
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1st European to trade for slaves
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Ottobah Cugoano
 Definition
A slave, thought there should be racial solidarity
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Olaudah Equiano
 Definition
Slave who wrote a book about his experience
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John Newton
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Slave ship captain, who became an activist against slavery
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What criteria did planters assess the successful seasoning of new Africans?
 Definition

Survival

Adaption

Learning a new language

Psychologial
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Sahara
 Definition
Desert that covers northern third of Africa
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Sub-Saharan Africa
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Africa South of Sahara
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Sahel
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Semi-Desert region
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Savannah
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Grassland
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Kalahari
 Definition
Desert in Southern Africa
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Hominids
 Definition
Biological family to which humans belong
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Australopithecines
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First formal hominids
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Homo Habilis
 Definition
First used stone tools, bigger brains, think and analyze
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Homo
 Definition
Human
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Homo Erectus
 Definition
Use fire, stood straight
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Homo sapien

 

 Definition
Directly related to human
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