Unit 3: Part 3 Vocabulary

Relatives who are not part of your immediate family.

• Extended Family

• griot

• ancestor worship

• animism

West African historian or storyteller

• Montezuma II

• griot

• Mansa Musa

• Ibn Battuta

A religious practice based on the belief that deceased family members have a continued existence, take an interest in the affairs of the world, and possess the ability to influence the fortune of the living.

• animism

• ancestor worship

• terrace farming

• griot

Belief system in which people believe that spirits in nature are responsible for acts of nature.

• quipu

• Islam

• animism

• griot

City in the West African kingdom of Mali that became a center of wealth and learning

• Machu Picchu

• Timbuktu

• Cuzco

• Tenochtitlan

Emperor of the kingdom of Mali in Africa. He made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca and made Timbuktu a center for trade and learning.

• Mansa Musa

• Ibn Battuta

• Montezuma II

• Machu Picchu

Moroccan that traveled throughout N. Africa and Asia. Much of what we know about Mali comes from his journal

• Machu Picchu

• Montezuma II

• Ibn Battuta

• Mansa Musa

The movement of the Bantu peoples southward throughout Africa, spreading their language and culture, from around 500 b.c. to around A.D 1000

• Great Zimbabwe

• Swahili

• Bantu Migration

• Trans-Saharan Trade Routes

linked North and West Africa across Sahara Desert; Islam was spread, and gold-salt trade occurred as a result

• Trans-Saharan Trade Routes

• Great Zimbabwe

• smooth coastline

• Bantu Migration

blend of Bantu language with Arabic spoken in coastal regions of East Africa.

• quipu

• obsidian

• Swahili

• Chinampas