Review for Chapter 8 of World Civilzations; The Global Experience (Fifth Edition) (AP Edition)
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| 969785729 | Stateless Society | A society that is not governed by a state; there is little concentration of authority | 0 | |
| 969785730 | Ifriqiya | the Arabic term for Eastern North Africa | 1 | |
| 977304562 | Maghrib | Arabic term for western North Africa. | 2 | |
| 977304563 | Sundiata | the founder of Mali empire. He crushed his enemies and won control of the gold trade routes | 3 | |
| 977304564 | Griots | Professional oral historians who served as keepers of traditions and advisors to kings within the Mali Empire | 4 | |
| 977304565 | Mansa Kankan Musa | Ruler of Mali (r. 1312-1337). His pilgrimage through Egypt to Mecca in 1324-1325 established the empire's reputation for wealth in the Mediterranean world. | 5 | |
| 977304566 | Timbuktu | Mali trading city that became a center of wealth and learning | 6 | |
| 977304567 | Songhay | Empire that replaced Mali in the late fifteenth century. | 7 | |
| 977304568 | Muhammad the Great | Extended the boundaries of the Songhay Empire; Islamic ruler of the mid-16th century | 8 | |
| 977304569 | Sharia | Islamic Law | 9 | |
| 977304570 | Zenj | Arabic term for the east African coast | 10 | |
| 977304571 | Swahili Language | blend of arabic and bantu language | 11 | |
| 977304572 | Benin | A kingdom of the West African rain forest | 12 | |
| 977304573 | Kongo | Central African kingdom in the 1400's that engaged in warfare and slavery | 13 | |
| 977304574 | Great Zimbabwe | City, now in ruins (in the modern African country of Zimbabwe), whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450, when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state. (p. 385) | 14 | |
| 977304575 | Mwene Mutapa | ruler of Great Zimbabwe; controlled a large territory reaching to the Indian Ocean | 15 | |
| 977304576 | Ibn Batuta | Arab traveler who described African societies and cultures in his travel records | 16 | |
| 977304577 | Hausa | An agricultural and trading people of central Sudan in West Africa. Aside from their brief incorporation into the Songhai Empire, the Hausa city-states remained autonomous until the Sokoto Calipphate conquered them in the early nineteenth century. | 17 | |
| 977304578 | Caliph | A Muslim ruler | 18 | |
| 977304579 | Juula | Malinke merchants who traded throughout the Mali empire and West Africa | 19 | |
| 977304580 | Almohadis | A reformist movement among the Islamic Berbers of northern Africa; later than the Almoravids; penetrated into sub-Sahara Africa. | 20 | |
| 977304581 | Jihad | A holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal | 21 | |
| 977304582 | Hajj | A pilgrimage to Mecca, performed as a duty by Muslims | 22 |
