1. 7th Grade World History
Vocabulary

2. CHAPTER 13
EARLY AFRICAN
CIVILIZATIONS

3. A spoken record
of past events
ORAL HISTORY

4. The storytellers of early West Africa were called a griot.

5. You must judge a man by the work of his hands.
In addition to stories, the griots recited PROVERBS – short sayings of wisdom or truth. They used proverbs to teach lessons to the people.
To stay a long time in the water does not make you clean.
Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped
You must judge a man by the work of his hands.

6. KENTE
A hand-woven, brightly colored West African fabric. The cloth was woven in narrow strips that were then sewn together. Kings and queens in West Africa wore garments made of kente for special occasions.