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__** The Cultures of East Africa **__ How does living along the Indian Ocean affect the people in East Africa? The people speak many different languages in East Africa because a lot of people migrated to East Africa. Some of those people are Arabs, Indians, West Africans, and other Asians. The Indian Ocean connects all of those cultures. Arab cultures came to East Africa almost 2,000 years ago. Then the cultures mixed and made the Swahili culture.

http://lib.colostate.edu/research/communic/telcom.html This is a picture of how migrating affect mixing cultures. I chose this picture because it shows who migrated to East Africa. VocabularyMigrate: To move from one place to another.Culture: Language religious beliefs, values, customs and other ways of life shared by a group of people.

**Vocbulary**
Migrate: To move from one place to another. Culture: Language, religious beliefs, values, customs and other ways of life share by a groups of people.

How have the swahili’s mixed their cultures? The Swahili’s are Africans who have mixed Arab and African ancestry. Their language is also called Swahili. The Swahili are just one hundreds of ethnic groups in East Africa. Swahili is the first language of about 49 million people around the world.