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| 263890270 | egypt and carthage | both located along the Mediterranean. most significant of the early African cultures | 0 | |
| 263890271 | Ibn Battuta | arab Muslim traveler who describes his visits to Africa. alot of what we know of Africa is from HIS perspective. | 1 | |
| 263890272 | unity | what did African politics have a lack of? | 2 | |
| 263890273 | Bantu migration | helped create the common linguistic base | 3 | |
| 263890274 | Sahel | the grassland. point of exchange between sub-Saharan forests to the south and active trading network of the sahara | 4 | |
| 263890275 | animistic | what kind of religion was common in all of Africa? (as well as a belief in creator deity) provided some underlying unity | 5 | |
| 263890276 | Nubia | ancient kingdom of Kush. one of the Christian kingdoms of africa | 6 | |
| 264008118 | Arab Muslims | who conquered Egypt but tolerated the Coptics? | 7 | |
| 264008119 | classical period | Ethiopia has been Christian since the: __________ | 8 | |
| 264008120 | Solomon and Sheba | Christian dynasty emerged in 1200s that traced its roots back to: ____________ | 9 | |
| 264008121 | ethiopia | what country never gets conquered by the Muslims? | 10 | |
| 267135803 | berbers | hundreds of different tribes that have nothing in common; converted to Islam | 11 | |
| 267135804 | almoravids and almohadis | reform movements within Africa | 12 | |
| 267135805 | Almoravids | first attempt to create a more orthodox version of Islam | 13 | |
| 267135806 | merchant caravans | how does Islam spread across the Sahara? | 14 | |
| 267135807 | gold and salt | items of exchange in trade common in Africa | 15 | |
| 267135808 | sudanic states | empires of the western sudan located on the niger and senegal rivers | 16 | |
| 267135809 | more womens rights | what did Islam have to adapt to when they came to Africa? | 17 | |
| 267135810 | mansa | ruler of the Mali empire | 18 | |
| 267135811 | sundiata | credited with the founding of Mali as an empire. the "lion prince" | 19 | |
| 267135812 | mansa musa | makes pilgrimage to Mecca in 14th C. spreads wealth and brings back Islamic architect to build mosques in Timbuktu and Gao | 20 | |
| 267135813 | timbuktu | what city in africa rivaled Baghdad in terms of trade? | 21 | |
| 267135814 | Jenne and Timbuktu | "port" cities/ urban areas. | 22 | |
| 267135815 | ibn battuta | islamic world travelor who described the "port" cities | 23 | |
| 267135816 | mali empire | empire whose wealth was based on agriculture and gold trade. manlike people who broke away from Ghana | 24 | |
| 267135817 | songhay kingdom | emerged as Mali's power waned. largest of the empires of the western sudan. took control of Jenne and timbuktu | 25 | |
| 267135818 | gao | capital city of the songhay kingdom | 26 | |
| 267135819 | askia | rulers of the songhay kingdom. were muslim but rest of the population was pagan | 27 | |
| 267135820 | naked women | what upset orthodox Muslim clerics in the songhay kingdom? | 28 | |
| 267135821 | hausa | carried on social, political, and religious traditions of the grasslands (although not an empire or a kingdom) | 29 | |
| 267135822 | Morocco | songhay was conquered by a Muslim army from ___________- in 16th C. | 30 | |
| 267135823 | slavery | commercially developed by Muslims. had existed in Africa on a small scale before contact with ISlam | 31 | |
| 267135824 | east africa swahili coast | trading cities along horn of africa all the way to modern day Mozambique impacted by Islam | 32 | |
| 267135825 | zenj | "east" (east africa coast)= mix of Bantu peope, indigenous people, southeast asians and eventually Arab Muslims | 33 | |
| 267135826 | swahili language | bantu based, arabic influenced | 34 | |
| 267135827 | islamic port cities | Zanzibar, Mogadishu, Kilwa, Mombasa | 35 | |
| 267135828 | peoples of the forests and plains | not impacted by islam; developing on their own. | 36 | |
| 267135829 | nok | village in forests of central Nigeria. art objects dating to 500 BCE | 37 | |
| 267135830 | yoruba | organization of small city-states all speaking non-Bantu language | 38 | |
| 267135831 | ife-ife | city | 39 | |
| 267135832 | benin | city-state of the Edo people in 14th and 15th centuries. in area of Yoruba culture. | 40 | |
| 267135833 | bantu people | agricultural people who also did weaving, pottery, and blacksmithing | 41 | |
| 267135834 | great zimbabwe | established by the SHona people. built massive stone settlements now in ruins. controlled territory all the way to the Indian ocean. | 42 | |
| 274542848 | stateless societies | the societies organized around kinship or other forms of obligation but no concentration of political power | 43 | |
| 274542849 | king lalibela | the king who built 11 churches each sculpted out of rock | 44 | |
| 274542850 | kilwa | one of the trading ports along the zenj that came under the influnce of africa | 45 |
