Chapter 7 Flashcards
Swahili
a member of a Bantu people of Zanzibar and the neighboring coast of Africa.
Bantu
a member of any of several peoples forming a linguistically and in some respects culturally interrelated family in central and southern Africa.
Savannah
A grassy plain in tropical and subtropical regions, with few trees.
Sahara desert
A vast desert in North Africa,expending from the Atlantic in the west to the Red Sea in the east, and from the Mediterranean and the Atlas Mountains in the north to the Sahel in the south. The largest desert in the world, it covers and area of about 9,065,000 sq.km
Mansa musa
African King Musa Keita I is thought to be the richest person of all time — “richer than anyone could describe,” reports Time.
Literally. His fortune was incomprehensible, Time’s Jacob Davidson writes: “There’s really no way to put an accurate number on his wealth.”
Ghana
a republic in West Africa comprising the former colonies of the Gold Coast and Ashanti, the protectorate of the Northern Territories, and the U.N. trusteeship of British Togoland: member of the Commonwealth of Nations since 1957. 91,843 sq. mi. (237,873 sq. km).
Capital: Accra.
Mali
Republic of, a republic in W Africa: formerly a territory of France; gained independence 1960. 463,500 sq. mi. (120,000 sq. km).
Capital: Bamako.
Zimbabwe
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Formerly Southern Rhodesia, Rhodesia. a republic in S Africa: a former British colony and part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; gained independence 1980. 150,330 sq. mi. (389,362 sq. km).
Capital: Harare.
Timbuktu
a town in central Mali, W Africa, near the Niger River.
Mohammed
(“the Conqueror”) 1430–81, sultan of Turkey 1451–81: conqueror of Constantinople 1453.
Plateau
a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
