Chapter 11

A group of families who trace their roots to the same ancestor

• Mali

• Benin

• Clan

• Oral History

A kingdom of the West African rain forest.

• Ghana

• Benin

• Aksum

• Savanna

A powerful southeast African city

• Great Zimbabwe

• Songhai

• Bantu

• Mansa Musa

One of many trading cities on the East African coast

• Ghana

• Clan

• Ile-Ife

• Kilwa

A king of Mali in the 1300's

• Sahara

• Mansa Musa

• Songhai

• Benin

The capital of a kingdom of the West African rain forest

• Kilwa

• Aksum

• Bantu

• Ile-Ife

An important East African center of trade

• Great Zimbabwe

• Savanna

• Aksum

• Ghana

A large group of central and southern Africans who speak related languages

• Benin

• Bantu

• Ile-Ife

• Songhai

An area of grassland with scattered trees and bushes

• Savanna

• Benin

• Swahili

• Clan

Accounts of the past that people pass down by word of mouth

• Mali

• Ile-Ife

• Oral History

• Mansa Musa