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Chapter 3 Africa
Warmboe Ch. 3 Study Guide Africa JMIS7
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History
7th Grade
11/08/2011

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Queen Nzinga
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Ruled lands in what are now angola and congo.
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Dahia Al-Kahina
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Led the fight against the muslim invasion of her kingdom, which was located about where Mauritania is today.
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Extended families
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Families that made up several generations.
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Matrilineal
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Traced descents that made up several generations back on the female side.

 

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oral history
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Stories passed down bywards mouth from generation to generation.
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Mali
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conquered what was left of the rapidly diminishing empire ghana
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clan
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a group of people descended from the same ancestor
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Axum
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Had strength mostly because of its location on the red sea.
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Sundiata Keita
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lion prince ruled from 1230 to 1255 seized the capital of Ghana in 1240.
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Sunni Ali
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the leader of Songhai stormed into Timbuktu and drove out the Berbers.
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Songhai
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Sunni Ali their leader of stormed into Timbuktu and drove out the Berbers.
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Griot
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or storytellers, and they give credit too Sundiata Keita.
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Ghana
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the first empire to develop.
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Mansa Musa
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Mali began a slow decline after the death of its last strong king.
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Dhows
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sails powered sailboats.
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Askia Muhammad
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under him Songhai built the largest empire in medieval West Africa.
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Ibn Battuta
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a young Arab lawyer from morocco, set out in 1325 to see the Muslim world.
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African Plateau
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high flat land, and in the east movements of earths crust millions of years ago cracked the continent this formed the great rift valley.
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Bantu
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Wanderers historians are not really sure why they left their homeland but maybe the land become too crowded or farmers wore out soil.
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King Ezana
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he sent his armies against Kush and defeated it.
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Zimbabwe
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great trading center arose inland in southeastern Africa
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Plantations
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are where European slaves work.
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Benin Rainforest Kingdoms:
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arose in the Niger delta, and Kongo, which formed in the Congo basin. Artists excelled at sculpting and carving metal, wood, and ivory.
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African Diaspora
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The spreading of African people and culture around the world.
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Art cave paintings
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they were the earliest form of African art we know about.
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Family how were Bantu families organized?
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In extended families and traced back on the women side of the family.
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Music how it has influenced styles we have Today?
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It has made the blues and helped over time form jazz, rock and roll, and more recently rap.
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Purpose of music and dance in African society
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People used it to express religious feelings, or to get threw a hard task like planting in a field believed dance helped the spirits express themselves.
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Slavery- role of the Portuguese, & Ways they kept memories of homeland Alive
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Sugarcane was hard labor and that is why enslaved people were perfect for it. The Portuguese promoted a whole new way to use enslaved people, by bringing them to a different country with different laws so that slaves could do more work. People also held on to memories and passed them down threw its family.
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