Global- Chap 8 Flashcards
(9 cards)
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Savannas
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Grassy Aftican plains where most Africans liv
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Sahel
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Land on the southern edge of the Sahara; loses land to the desert
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Nok culture
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- West Africa’s earliest culture
- upper part of Africa
- went from copper to Iron Age
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Animism
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Religion where animals play an important role
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Griots
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African storytellers
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Bantu People
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- nomadic
- similar to the Indo- Europeans
- emerged in Nigeria
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Kingdom of Aksum (Axum)
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- powerful kingdom that arose and conquered Kush
- lived south of Kush
- prominent in trade
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Adulis
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Aksum’s chief seaport crowded with merchants from all over the world
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King Ezana
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- ruler of Aksum
- conquered the Kushites and destroyed Meroë
