Vocab
Blended African-Arab culture and language
Swahili
an important trade city of Mali in West Africa
Timbuktu
people who move from place to place in search of food
Nomads
drawings and paintings left on stone
rock art
building for Muslim Prayer
mosque
the belief that one's own culture or ethnic group is superior
ethnocentrism
the capital city of the Songhai kingdom in West Africa
Gao
independent business people
entrepreneurs
steep canyon located on the Serengeti Plain in northern Tanzania
Olduvai Gorge
a form of Christianity that blended African customs with Christian teachings
Coptic Christianity
voyages the brough enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies
Middle Passage
A West African city that was a center of learning
Djenne
people who hunted animals and gathered plants, seeds, and nuts for food
hunter-gatherers
meeting of European countries beginning in 1884 during which Africa was divided into European colonies
Berlin Conference
Attempt to dominate a country's government, trade or culture
Imperialism
process in which people exchange goods without contacting each other
silent barter
first European colony in West Africa
Gold Coast
Dutch farmers
Boers
Goods that brought Europeans to Africa
Gold and Ivory
After their leader's death, they successfully fought the British army for 50 years.
Zulu
early ancestors of humans
hominids
waterway built in Egypt to connect the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea
Suez Canal
the spread of 400 ethnic groups who spoke related languages out of West Africa into the southern half of the continent
Bantu Migration
This country resisted the European control and remained free
Ethiopia
A devotion and loyalty to ones country
Nationalism