Chapter 15 Review- 8th Grade

stories passed down from generation to generation

• Oral history
• Matrilineal
• Griot
• Extended Family

group of families with a common ancestor

• clade
• colony
• family
• clan

the unique culture of Africa's East Coast and the language spoken there

• Sugarcane
• Matrilineal
• Swahili
• Savanna

Africa is the...

• largest continent
• second largest continent
• smallest continent
• fourth smallest

What changed trade in Africa greatly?

• Trains
• Wagons
• Camels
• Horses

The world's largest desert

• the Sahara Desert
• The Sarah Desert
• The Great Desert
• The Desert of Africa

storyteller

• Griot
• Dhow
• Swahili
• Locrio

a grassy plant that is a natural source of sugar

• wheat
• sudangrass
• corn
• sugarcane

based on or tracing descent through the female line

• Swahili
• Transitory
• Matrilineal
• Bilateral

an area of high, flat land

• peninsula
• plateau
• savanna
• plain