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🤴🏿History of Africa – Before 1800
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241 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your History of Africa – Before 1800 exam

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A

Abbasid Dynasty
Abd al-rahman al-sa'di
Abusuapanin
Adinkra cloth
Adinkra symbols
Afonso I
Afonso I of Kongo
African Elites
African masks
African sculpture
Age set system
Age-grade systems
Agricultural surplus
Agriculture along the Nile
Ahmad baba al-timbukti
Aksum Empire
Aksumite Empire Conversion
Alluvial mining
Almohad Caliphate
Almoravid Dynasty
Ancestor worship
Ancestral Worship
Animal husbandry
Arabic Lingua Franca
Asante Army
Ashanti Empire
Askia Muhammad
Astronomy in the Mali Empire
Axumite Architecture
Axumite Empire
Axumite merchants

B

Band societies
Bantu Migrations
Bantu-speaking communities
Bark cloth
Barter system
Battle of Karana
Battle of Kirina
Battle of Tondibi
Benin bronze plaques
Benin Bronzes
Benin City
Benin culture
Berber Revolts
Bight of Benin
Bight of Biafra
Bight of Biafra Trade
Bipedalism
Bone-setting
Book of the Dead
Bride Wealth

C

Call and response
Caravan trade
Cattle herding
Central Africa
Central African Art
Centralization of Power
Centralized Authority
Church of St. George
City of Timbuktu
Clan structures
Coastal trade networks
Composite tools
Congo Basin
Congo River
Conquest of Timbuktu
Contact with Portugal
Conversion to Christianity
Coptic Traditions
Coral stone architecture
Cotton textiles
Court rituals
Craft production
Creole culture
Customary law