Islam
a religion founded in Arabia in A.D. 622 by the prophetMuhammad; its believers are called Muslims.
Plantation
a large farm on which the labor of enslaved individuals orother workers is used to grow a single crop, such as sugar cane orcotton
Songhai
an empire that, at the height of its power in the 1500s,controlled much of West Africa
Savanna
a dry grassland dotted with trees and bushes, found insub-Saharan Africa and other tropical or subtropical regions
Benin
a West African kingdom that flourished in the Niger Deltaregion (in what is now Nigeria) from the 14th to the 17th century
Kongo
a group of small kingdoms along the Zaire River inWest-Central Africa, united under a single leader in the late 1400s
Lineage
a group of people descended from a common ancestor