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Desserts cover what percent of africa
40
All members of a lineage group claimed descent from
A common ancestor
Caravan
A company of travelers using camels to cross the sahara
Plateau
A high, flat area of land
Oral tradition
A legend or story passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth
Swahili
A mixed African Arabian culture found throughout east africa
Matrilineal
A society that traces its decent through the mother
Bronze
Alloy used to create statues and sculptures in life and benin
Ezana
Alums king who converted to Christianity and ,aide it an official religion
Ancestors were a key element
Ancestors draw them closer to god
Axum was founded by
Arabs
Africa is the largest after
Asia
Kush declined because of the rise of
Axum
The official religion of axum
Christianity
Askia muhammad
Created a bureaucracy
Believed they could tell the future
Diviners
Sunni ali
First famous ruler of Songhai, captured jenne
Ghana
First great African trading state
Sundiata keita
Founder of Mali empire
The first of the great trading states to emerge in west africa
Ghana
The area of Africa that jolts into the Atlantic ocean
Horn of africa
Mansa musa
Most famous ruler of Mali, made a pilgrimage to Mecca and set up Timbuktu
Ashanti
People in Ghana who worshipped nyame and a group of lesser gods
Diviners
People who predict events by supernatural means
Berbers
Regularly raided the farming village
The largest dessert on earth
Sahara
Resource
Something that people can use
Which trading empire named gao as their capital
Songhai
Griots
Storytellers who pass on community's history, legends , and traditions
The nok culture is famous for
Terra- cotta sculpture
Muhammad ture
The Songhai empire reached the height of its power
Savannas
Treeless grasslands
From 1300 to 1450 the most powerful state in Southern Africa was
Zimbabwe
