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| Means "desert" and is the world's largest. This desert is roughly the same size as the United States and it spans the width of the African continent |
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| Flat grasslands, the people developed grain crops, soghum, and maize (corn) |
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| a narrow strip of land between the Sahara and the savannah, here cotton, watermelon began to appear. |
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| During much of Europe's dark ages European cities struggled while African empires built advanced cities. |
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| Cattle especially were considered a sign of wealth. Therefore, to kill an animal meant the loss of one's wealth. Rather than kill their livestock, the Africans added to their diets by hunting or fishing. |
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| included everyone who could trace his ancestry to a common relative. Families are the most important element in African culture. |
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| consisted of two or more clans that shared the same language, beliefs, and customs. |
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| Kikuyu's Supreme Being or High God. |
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| the belief that spirits live in trees, rocks, rivers, or mountains, while others simply lived in the air. |
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| African's learned to grow roots for food such as Yams. |
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| 11 churches built by King Lalibela in the 13th century. They were unique in that they were carved out of solid bedrock below ground level. |
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| Ethiopian legend states that the queen of Sheba and King Solomon had a child from whom all Ethiopian rulers are descended. |
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| Ethiopian Legend says that a wooden box on the alter of this Cathedral contained the origional ark of the covenant. |
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| Order of the largest and most important empires of Western Africa in chronological order |
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| This Ancient African empire grew from the extensive trade passing through western Africa around the fourth century. Traders bearing salt and gold helped this empire become very prosperous. By the 11th century Ghana's rulers had converted to Islam. |
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| The Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah |
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| The imperial title of the Ethiopian rulers |
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| Ivory, Precious stones, slaves, gold |
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| Major East African cities thrived on these types of products |
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| First written history of Africa |
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| Islamic scholars traveling in Africa taught the people to raed and write Arabic. The same scholars recorded what they saw in Africa gave us this. |
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| Ethiopian king who became a Coptic Christian |
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| one of the finest and most substantially built towns. |
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| The title of the king of Mali, means "ruler" |
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| A modern down an Somalia's eastern coast. |
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| Mali king who brought a great number of slaves, camels, and much gold to Mecca |
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| Founded the kingdom of Mali |
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| The common trade language spoken along the easter coast of Africa |
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| River that borders Zimbabwe's empire. |
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| The people whom Kilwa practice Jihad against |
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| large city whose name means "Great house of stone" |
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| West African Trading items |
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| cotton cloth, gold, and iron |
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| Ships of the desert, able to store energy-rich fat in their humps, can store enough liquid to survive five to seven days with out water, have long eyelashes and nostrils that can be closed during sandstorms, are able to withstand the extreme temperature changes found in the desert |
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| On the Nile River between Egypt and Ethiopia |
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| may have developed separately in Sub-Saharan Africa as early as 1,000 B.C. Items made from iron could be traded for food or other commodities. Bars served as a form of money in countries such as Ethiopia |
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