Kingdom of Aksum
This trade almost made the species extinct
Ivory
Another name for sailors, also a famous Seattle baseball team
Mariners
Official language of Tanzania
Swahili
Movement to another place
Migration
They settled between two rivers in southern Africa
Shona
Aksum is now present day
Ethiopia
From April to October these helped traders in the Indian ocean
Monsoons
The richest and most powerful city-state in Africa
Kilwa
Staple crop of East Africa
Bananas
this is how Great Zimbabwe rulers expressed their power and wealth
Extraordinary stone structures
King that conquered Kush
Ezana
These carried not only goods but culture, language and religion to other regions
Dhows
To reinforce its control on the gold trade Kilwa took over this port
Sofala
These pesky little beasts could make crops not grow well
Tsetse flies
Imposing circular wall 30 feet tall and 15 feet thick
Great Enclosure
Official religion of Aksum
Christianity
Muslim rulers
Sultans
Kilwa's this was very rigid and hard to move from one to another
Social Class
Earliest Bantu probably were these two types of people
Fishers and Farmers
These people lived inside the enclosure
Elite
Aksum spent its wealth on many things name two
Textiles, metal, olive oil
in 1980, an adventurer tried to recreate this legendary sailors voyage but the winds stopped and he was stuck in Sri Lanka
Sinbad the sailor
How to say Hello in Swahili
Habari
These gave the Bantu a clear advantage when it came to arguments over territory
Iron Weapons
Historians theory of why the Great Zimbabwe declined
Portuguese shifted the gold trade
Depleted the land