Chapter 13: Early African Civilizations Sections 1 & 2

The second-largest continent in the world

• Africa

• Asia

• North America

• Europe

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

• savannah

• sahel

• rifts

• Sahara

Africa south of the Sahara

• savannah

• sub-Saharan

• sahel

• Sahara

A source of water, food and transportation

that allowed many people to live in West Africa

• Lake Victoria

• Zambezi River

• Congo River

• Niger River

A strip of land with little rainfall that divides the desert from wetter areas

• rift

• sahel

• Sahara

• savannah

Open grassland with scattered trees

• rift

• sahel

• Sahara

• savannah

Traditional crops grown in West Africa include all of the following EXCEPT

• dates

• kola nuts

• olives

• grains

Kept food from spoiling and people needed it in their diets to survive Africa's hot climate:

• dates

• salt

• kola nuts

• iron

Usually included a father, mother, children and close relatives in one household

• extended family

• age-set

• silent barter

• animism

The belief that bodies of water, animals, trees and other natural objects have spirits

• extended family

• age-set

• silent barter

• animism