Vocabulary: Ancient African Kingdoms

Area in Africa located below the Sahara Desert.

• Trans-Saharan Africa

• Sub-Saharan Africa

• South Saharan Africa

• Un-Saharan Africa

When livestock eat most of the grass and leave the ground exposed to the sun.

• Overeating

• Overgrazing

• Undereating

• Deforestation

Family outside of a mother, father, and children.

• External family

• Nuclear family

• Extended family

Semi-desert vegetation zone located in Western Africa.

• Savanna

• Sahara

• Sahel

A method of trading used between two or more people who do not speak the same language.

• Quiet barter

• Quiet trade

• Silent trade

• Silent barter

Tropical area with many trees and heavy rainfall.

• Rainforest

• Mediterranean

• Sahel

Traveling poets, musicians, and storytellers in West Africa.

• Imams

• Berbers

• Griots

Area in Africa with higher rainfall, tall grasses, and trees.

• Savanna

• Sahara

• Semi-arid region

Long, deep valleys formed by the movement of the earth’s crust.

• Rifts

• Animism

• Matrilineal

Descended through the mother’s side of the family.

• Rifts

• Animism

• Matrilineal