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What is the term for an independent political unit that includes a city and surrounding land?
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City-state
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Who were the people who migrated south and east through Africa?
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Bantu people
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What was the name of the city-state founded by settlers form Arabia and Persia?
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Kilwa
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What was one reslut of the interaction between Arabs and Africans?
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Swahili
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What poeple greatly influenced the culture and government of East Africa?
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Arabs
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What people settled between the Zambezi and LImpopo rivers and built an empire?
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Shona
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What was the large settlement whose name means "house of stone"?
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The great Zimbabwe
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What people settled along the western coast of Africa and established a great kingdom?
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The kongo
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What people introduced great changes to the people of Kongo?
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Portugeese people
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What caused instability in the kingdom of Kongo?
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Slave Trade
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What do we call the movement of many different tribes moving south and east through Africa beginning in 1000 b.c.
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Bantu migration
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Why did Kilwa become an important trade center?
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It was as far south as traders from India could sail in one monsoon season
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What did Arab traders bring with them when they settled in East African port towns?
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Islam and language
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Where did the Shona people settle and build a thrivign empire?
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Southern Africa
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What was the largest settlement in the Shona Empire?
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Great Zimbabwe
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