Chapter 7 tedt

Desserts cover what percent of africa

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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