chapter 6

3. -world's second largest continent
5. -14th century Moroccan traveler and explorer ibn battuta
7. -development of a unique culture along the east African coast.
9. -vital resource used for preserving food.
10. - direction toward the point of the horizon where the sun rises.
11. -crucial center for trans-saharan trade,Islamic scholarship, and culture in medieval west africa.
12. -traditional sailing vessels with triangular lateen sails that were crucial to maritime trade and cultural exchange.
13. -group of people,animals, and vehicles traveling together for safety and efficiency.
15. -shared beliefs,values,customs.art,language,and behaviors of a particular group of people that are learned and passed down through generations.
16. semidesert region
19. area of fertile grasslands,followed by rainforest.
23. group of descendants from a common ancestor
24. class of oral historians

1. -influential city state on the swahili coast of East Africa that flourished as a major trading hub in the indian ocean
2. -group of bantu-speaking peoples who migrated across africa
4. -religious institution and the history of church buildings.
6. -emperor of ethiopia from 1889 to 1913
7. -powerful west African empire that existed from the 15th to the 16th centuries
8. -person whole acts as a link between people in order to try to bring about an agreement.
14. -money
17. -semitic language of the Arabs,spoken throughout the middle east and north Africa.
18. story of the founder of the Mali empire.
20. -relating to Africa or its people,customs,or languages
21. -exclusive right granted by a gov to a single entity to control or resource.
22. -maninka and mandinka word for a hereditary ruler.