Trading Routes of East Africa

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  1. 5. The trade route that connected India to the Middle East, this trade route utilized the Indian Ocean as the way of transport.
  2. 10. a larger African kingdom that expanded far beyond Ghana and their famous ruler Mansa Musa opened new trade routes, exchanged new good, and kept his people and the trade routes safe.
  3. 13. a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa, generally regarded as the longest river in the world.
  4. 14. a person or company involved in wholesale trade, especially one dealing with foreign countries or supplying merchandise to a particular trade.
  5. 15. producing or capable of producing abundant vegetation or crops.
  6. 16. an East African language and culture that emerged by the 1000s from a combination of African, Asian, and Arabic influences.
  7. 18. Christians as far as their beliefs are held, and are living predominantly in a Muslim part of the world present day.
  8. 21. a queen regnant who appears in the Bible. The tale of her visit to King Solomon has undergone extensive Jewish, Arabian and Ethiopian elaborations.
  9. 23. is an ancient language that originated in the northern region of Ethiopia. It later became the official language of the Kingdom of Aksum and Ethiopia.
  10. 24. an Axum port city on the Red Sea, one of two major cities in the kingdom that commanded a trade network in the region.
  11. 26. a hard, fine-grained, white ceramic ware that was traded from Asia through the markets of Axum and East African coasts.
  12. 27. The first known kingdom in western Africa who utilized the trans-Sahara trade as a way to bring in money to the government.
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  1. 1. a serene, often imaginary past time of peace, prosperity, and happiness.
  2. 2. to produce (something) on a large scale using machinery.
  3. 3. a principal administrative division of certain countries or empires.
  4. 4. the ruler of Ethiopia in the early 1200s.
  5. 6. the spread of cultural beliefs and social activities from one group to another.
  6. 7. trading center, and powerful ancient kingdom in northern present-day Ethiopia.
  7. 8. the ruler of the Kingdom of Aksum (320s – 360AD)
  8. 9. often called the Erythraean Sea; a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia.
  9. 11. powerful East African medieval trade center and city-state between 900 and 1500. Located in southern present-day Zimbabwe.
  10. 12. a town at the mouth of the Galana River, lying on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya.
  11. 14. a seasonal prevailing wind in the region of South and Southeast Asia, blowing from the southwest and bringing rain.
  12. 17. a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives.
  13. 18. to bring over from one belief, view, or party to another.
  14. 19. From India, Southeast Asia, and _______ came cotton cloth, silk, spices, porcelain, glassware, and swords.
  15. 20. a Greek term used by Axumite kings to refer to their kingdom.
  16. 22. a member of a group of people in Ethiopia who hold the Jewish faith but use Geez rather than Hebrew as a liturgical language.
  17. 25. a member of a religious community of men typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.