African Civilizations and the Spread of Islam
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| 98855685 | stateless societies | African societies organized around kinship or other forms of obligation and lacking the concentration of political power and authority with states | 0 | |
| 98855686 | ifriqiya | arabic term for eastern north africa | 1 | |
| 98855687 | maghrib | arabic term for western north aftica | 2 | |
| 98855688 | almohadis | reformist movement among the islamic berbers of n africa later than almoravids penetrated into sub-saharan africa | 3 | |
| 98855689 | juula | malinke merchants formed small partnerships to carry out trade throughout mali empire eventually spread throughout much of w africa | 4 | |
| 98855690 | sundiata | 'lion prince' member of the deita clan created a unified state that became the mali empire died about 1260 | 5 | |
| 98855691 | griots | professional oral historians who served as keepers of traditions advisors to kings within the mali empire | 6 | |
| 98855692 | ibn batuta | arab traveler who described african societies and cultures in his travel records | 7 | |
| 98855693 | timbuktu | port city of mali located just off the flood plain on the freat bend in the niger river pop. = 50,000 contained a livrary and university | 8 | |
| 98855694 | songhay | successor state to mali dominated middle reaches of niger valley formed as independent kingdom under a berber dynasty capital at gao reached imperial status under sunni ali (1464-1492) | 9 | |
| 98855695 | muhammadthe great | extended the boundaries of the songhay empire islamic ruler of the mid-16th century | 10 | |
| 98855696 | hausa | ppls of n nigeria formed states following the demise of songhay empire that combined muslim and pagan traditions | 11 | |
| 98855697 | sharia | islamic law defined among other things the patrilineal nature of islamic inheritance | 12 | |
| 98855698 | zeng | arabic term for the e african coast | 13 | |
| 98855699 | demography | study of population | 14 | |
| 98855700 | benin | powerful city-state (in present day nigeria) came into contact with the portuguese in 1485 but remained relatively free of European influnece important commercial and politacal entity until 1800s | 15 | |
| 98855701 | kongo | kindom based on agriculture, formed on lower congo river by late 15th century capital at mbanza kong ruled by hereditary monarchy | 16 | |
| 98855702 | great zimbabwe | bantu confederation of shona-speaking ppls located bewn zambezi and limpop rivers develped after 9th century featured royal courts built of stone created centralized state by 15th century king took title of mwene mutapa | 17 | |
| 98857639 | weakness of africa's stateless societies | no official group of rulers-authority very wpread out had hard time resisting exterior pressures, mobilizing for warfare, organizing large building progects, stabilizing conditions ofr long term trading | 18 | |
| 98857640 | bantu speaking people's impact on culture in africa | gave many a common/fairly similar lang. that lots could understand | 19 | |
| 98857641 | similarities in africa before spread of islam and christianity | animistic religion, believed bad things caused by witchcraft, other beliefs | 20 | |
| 98857642 | ways nubia and ethiopia unique from african neighbors | both christian and stayed christian even with surrounding muslims | 21 | |
| 98857643 | primary source of spread of islam to s of sahara | trade-muslims traders wanted gold which was s of sahara, so they went there | 22 |
