vocab- Chapter 5 Early West Africa

impact

• effect, result

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

• an open grassland with scattered trees

• a group that includes the father, mother, children, and close relatives

traditional

• customary, time-honored

• effect, result

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

• a family group that includes the father, mother, children, and close relatives

animism

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

• a family group that includes the father, mother, children, and close relatives

• customary, time-honored

• effect, result

rain forest

• a moist, densely wooded area that contains many different plants and animals

• a semiarid region in Africa just south of the Sahara that separates the desert from wetter areas

• an open grassland with scattered trees

• Africa south of the Sahara

Sahel

• a semiarid region in Africa just south of the Sahara that separates the desert from wetter areas

• the largest desert on Earth

• a moist, densely wooded area that contains many different plants and animals

• an open grassland with scattered trees

Savannah

• an open grassland with scattered trees

• the largest desert on Earth

• a semiarid region in Africa just south of the Sahara that separates the desert from wetter areas

• a moist, densely wooded area that contains many different plants and animals

extended family

• a group that includes the father, mother, children, and close relatives

• customary, time-honored

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

• long, deep valleys formed by the movement of the earth's crust

rift

• long, deep valleys formed by the movement of the earth's crust

• a group that includes the father, mother, children, and close relatives

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

• Africa south of the Sahara

sub-Saharan Africa

• Africa south of the Sahara

• a family group that includes the father, mother, children, and close relatives

• long, deep valleys formed by the movement of the earth's crust

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