African Geography
Early History
Trading Empires of West Africa
Europe Attacks!
Vocabulary
100
Niger and Nile are 2 examples
What are the major rivers of Africa?
100
How the earliest people in Africa got their food
What is hunting and gathering?
100
The 2 most important goods traded by the West African empires
What are salt and gold?
100
Time period when Europe began trading enslaved Africans across the Atlantic
What is the 1500s?
100
West African storytellers who keep oral histories
What are griots?
200
Rocky, fast-moving places in the Nile and other African rivers
What are cataracts?
200
Genetic material that shows how all humans are related
What is DNA?
200
People who spread Islam into Mali
What are Muslim traders?
200
First European country to build trading forts in Africa
What is Portugal?
200
The movement of customs and ideas from one place to another
What is cultural diffusion?
300
Desert that extends over most of North Africa
What is the Sahara?
300
The earliest period in human prehistory
What is the Stone Age?
300
This resulted in the value of gold being reduced in Egypt and Europe finding out about the wealth of Timbuktu
What is Mansa Musa's pilgrimage to Mecca?
300
Europe was successful in doing this to much of Africa, meaning to take over another land and settle your people there
What is to colonize?
300
Another word for family relationships
What is kinship?
400
Civilization that arose on the Nile River about 5,000 years ago
What is Egypt (Kemet)?
400
Scientists who study objects to learn about humans of the past
What are archaeologists?
400
A religious journey
What is a pilgrimage?
400
European country that took over and expanded the Slave Trade
What is England?
400
To adapt wild plants or animals for human use
What is to domesticate?
500
Where the earliest people in Egypt settled
What is the banks of the Nile river?
500
Making pottery, stone tools, and medicines from plants
What are some accomplishments of early Africans?
500
Another word for cultural groups, which West Africa has in great abundance
What are ethnic groups?
500
The part of the Triangular Trade that took enslaved Africans to the Americas
What is the Middle Passage?
500
A society with cities, government, and social classes
What is civilization?
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