Question: Hausa Kingdom

Answer: The Hausa Kingdom, also known as Hausa Kingdoms or Hausa land, was a collection of states started by the Hausa people, situated between the Niger River and Lake Chad (modern day northern Nigeria).

Question: Trans-Saharan trade network

Answer: connected West Africa to North Africa; West African kingdoms traded gold with North African Muslims for salt; slaves were also traded

Question: Kinship

Answer: A social bond based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption

Question: Griot

Answer: a member of a class of traveling poets, musicians, and storytellers who maintain a tradition of oral history in parts of West Africa.

Question: oral literature

Answer: Stories passed down from generation to generation by mouth

Question: Swahili States

Answer: established regional trade centers, where copper, gold, silver, lead, gum copal pottery, beads, and bronze came from Cambodia, China, Arabia, Egypt, Yemen, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Indian subcontinent

Question: state system

Answer: The regular patterns of interaction between states but without implying any shared values between them. This is distinguished from the view of a “society” of states.

Question: Great Zimbabwe

Answer: A powerful state in the African interior that apparently emerged from the growing trade in gold to the East African coast; flourished between 1250 and 1350 C.E.

Question: Sundiata Keita

Answer: Leader credited with seizing Ghana and starting the kingdom of Mali; known as the “Lion Prince”

Question: Ethiopia

Answer: East African highland nation lying east of the Nile River.