Homework:
3/5 - Copy vocabulary words in NB
1. Savannas - consists of areas of
open grassland with very few trees.
2. Aksum - powerful kingdom in northern Ethiopia during
the early Christian era.
3. gold trade - Exchange of
salt for commodities such as gold and slaves, particularly in WestAfrica.
Salt was probably one of the earliest goods traded over long
4. ivory - the hard white substance,
a variety of dentin, composing the main part of the tusks of the elephant
5. Great Zimbabwe - ruins are
the largest collection of ruins in Africa south of the Sahara. Located in the
heart of southern Africa
6. Lalibela - The small town of
Lalibela in Ethiopia is home to one of the world's most astounding sacred
sites: eleven rock-hewn churches, each carved entirely out of a single rock.
7. Mansa Musa - (about 1280 –
about 1337) was an emperor (mansa) of the Mali Empire during the 14th century.
8. Songhai - largest of the former
empires in the western Sudan region of N Africa.
9. Kush - The Kingdom of Kush
was an ancient state that existed (twice) in what is now the northern part of
The Sudan.
10. Swahili - language, also
known as Kiswahili, is a Bantu language and the first language of the Swahili people.
