Core Concepts
The beliefs, customs, practices, and behavior of a group of people.
What is culture?
Arabs traded salt to West Africans in this exchange.
What is the salt trade?
The voyage from Africa to the Americas was called this.
What is the Middle Passage?
What is the savanna?
This allows things to pass in and out of the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
A behavior that is considered normal in a society.
What is a norm?
Mali's greatest emperor.
Who is Mansa Musa?
Creating an empire by conquest.
What is imperialism?
Land that can be farmed is said to be this.
This part of the cell is responsible for digestion.
What is the lysosome?
A group of humans with shared culture who hace organized themselves to meet their basic needs.
What is a society?
The largest African Empire.
What is Songhai?
A political and social movement designed to unite all black Africans.
What is Pan-Africanism?
Mosquitoes of Africa spread this life-threatening disease.
What is malaria?
This part of the cell is responsible for waste removal.
What is the vacuole?
A family that consists of parents and their children.
What is a nuclear family?
The largest city of Songhai that became a critical trade route on the Silk Road.
What is Timbuktu?
Caravans crossing Africa had to trek through this vast desert.
What is the Sahara?
The loss of forest cover of a region.
What is deforestation?
This part of the cell creates proteins.
What is the ribosome?
A group of people living in similar economic conditions.
What is a social class?
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A policy by which one country seeks to rule other areas.
What is colonialism?
The Congo region of Africa was colonized by this European nation.
What is Belgium?
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This insect is responsible for spreading Africa's "sleeping sickness."
What is the Tsetse fly?
The brain of the cell.
What is the nucleus?