Geography
an area of relatively level high ground
What is a plateau?
was the ninth Mansa of the Mali Empire, one of the most powerful West African states. He has sometimes been called the wealthiest person in history.
Who is mansa musa
Standing stone slab used in the ancient world primarily as a grave marker
What is a stele?
Occurs when companies divide their production or service process into several set tasks
What is Labor specialization?
Materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain
What are natural resources?
a grassy plain in tropical and subtropical regions, with few trees
What is a savanna?
a member of a class of traveling poets, musicians, and storytellers who maintain a tradition of oral history in parts of West Africa
What is a griot?
academic study or achievement; learning at a high level
What is a scholarship?
A company of traders or other travelers journeying together, often with a train of camels, through the desert
What is a caravan?
trade across the Saharan Desert
What is trans-saharan?
a depression, or dip, in the Earth's surface.
What is a basin?
Any of the Bantu languages spoken by the Shona
What is shona?
a hot drink made from the roasted and ground seeds (coffee beans) of a tropical shrub.
What is Coffee?
the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.
what is colonialism
Killing animals illegally
What is poaching
The sedimentary basin of the Congo River.
What is the congo-basin
having characteristics that are partly Greek and partly Roman specifically
What is greco-roman?
the abstract science of number, quantity, and space
What are Mathematics?
The basic freedoms to which all humans are entitled
what are human rights
A long period of time with little or no rain
what is a drought
The biggest mountains in the world. Extending across much of northern Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia
What are the atlas mountains?
relating to or denoting a group of Niger-Congo languages spoken in central and southern Africa, including Swahili, Xhosa, and Zulu.
What is bantu?
What is shea butter?
This Islamic-run superpower ruled large areas of the Middle East, Eastern Europe and North Africa for more than 600 years.
What is the ottoman empire
The removal of forests; contributes to soil erosion.
what is deforestation