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Africa Unit
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9th Grade
10/25/2012

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  1. animism

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 The attribution of a living soul to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena  

 

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  1. canopic jars

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 a jar used in ancient Egypt to contain entrails of an embalmed body
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  1. extended family

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 A family that extends beyond the nuclear family, including grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other relatives
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  1. hieroglyphics

 

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Communicating through drawing pictures

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  1. mummification

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Mummification was the process of preserving and embalming a dead body in the belief that the body would be necessary in the Ancient Egyptian afterlife

 

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  1. papyrus

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A plant that possesses all the necessary properties needed to make paper  

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  1. pharaoh

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A ruler in ancient Egypt   

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polygamy
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The practice or custom of having more than one wife at the same time
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1.polytheism
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The belief in or worship of more than one god.
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1.Rosetta Stone
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An inscribed stone found near Rosetta on the western mouth of the Nile in 1799
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1.Atlantic Slave Trade/ Triangle Trade
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slaves were bought on the African Gold Coast with New England rum and then traded in the West Indies for sugar or molasses, that was brought back to New England to be manufactured into rum
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1.Bantu Migration
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Bantu people supposedly have migrated from Eastern Nigeria and Western Cameroun (or around there) to all over africa
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1.caravan
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A group of people who travle together with belongings
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1.Ibn Battuta
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Noted Arab traveler and writer. he traveled through Africa, Asia, and Europe covered some 75,000 miles and after wrote a book the Rihlah. that became famous...
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1.Islam
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A religion in which the people worship one god and Muhammad as the chief and last prophet of God.
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1.Mansa Musa
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Was a ruler of the Mali empire.
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1.Middle Passage
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The journey taken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies
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1.Swahili
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A Bantu language spoken by certain ethnic groups.
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1.Timbuktu
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A city in Mali
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1.Trans-Saharan Trade
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is trade across the Sahara desert between Mediterranean countries and sub-Saharan Africa
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1.apartheid
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A segregation law strictly followed Republic of South Africa
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1.Berlin Conference
(1884-1885)
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Berlin and important European nations decided the future of africa
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1.Desmond Tutu
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South African clergyman
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1.Jomo Kenyatta
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the first president of Kenya
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1.Kwame Nkrumah
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Ghanaian politician, he became president (1960)
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1.Nelson Mandela
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first democratically elected president in 1994
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1.Shaka Zulu
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Zulu military leader, founded the Zulu Empire in southern Africa
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1.Social Darwinism
Definition
Darwinism in the study of human society
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