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19 Cards in this Set
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Bantu migrations |
bantu tribes moving south and east through Africa
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Afonso I
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a king of Kongo whose rule began in A.D 1506 ,he started the slave trade with the Portuguese |
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Mutota |
the man who founded and was named after the Mutapa Empire |
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Great Enclosure |
the largest of the three main sections of the Shona settlement of Great Zimbabwe-likely a royal residences |
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Shona |
a Bantu-speaking culture |
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Rain forests
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a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall |
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City-state
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an independent city and sometimes its surrounding land — which has its own government, completely separate from nearby countries |
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Central Africa |
a core region of the African continent |
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Zambezi River |
a river in South Africa, flowing South and West |
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Limpopo River |
a river in South Africa |
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Congo River |
a river in Africa and the world's deepest river |
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Mbanza |
the capital city of the ancient African kingdom of Kongo
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Kongo |
an ancient kingdom along the western coast of Africa |
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Great Zimbabwe |
the central settlement of the Shona Empire in Africa, enclosed by a large stone wall, covering more |
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Kilwa |
a community on an island off the southern coast of present-day Tanzania in eastern Africa |
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Roman Catholicism |
the faith, practice, and system of government of the Roman Catholic Church |
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Islam |
The religion that Muslims practice. A follower of Islam believes that the Qur'an is the word of God |
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Mutapa |
an ancient kingdom in what is know the country of Zimbabwe, established by a Shona King |
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Swahili |
a bantu language that borrowed many words from the Arabic language |