Ch.15 in Traditions and Encounter: A Brief Global History 2nd Edition
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| 266820458 | age grades | Bantu concept in which individuals of roughly the same age carried out communal tasks appropriate for that age. | 0 | |
| 266820459 | Axum | Capital of ancient Ethiopian kingdom. | 1 | |
| 266820460 | bananas | agricultural product that was brought to Africa and increased the Bantu Migrations. | 2 | |
| 266820461 | Bantu Peoples | African Peoples who originally | 3 | |
| 266820462 | Benin | Large precolonial African state in what is now modern Nigeria. | 4 | |
| 266820463 | camels | cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions; Made Trans - Saharan Trade a major route through which Northwest Africa became major suppliers of gold and other resources. | 5 | |
| 266820464 | Ghana | 8th through the 11th century empire in West Africa that grew wealth from the trans - Saharan trade. | 6 | |
| 266820465 | Great Zimbabwe | Large sub - Saharan African kingdom in the 15th century. | 7 | |
| 266820466 | Ife | 8th to 10th century kingdom in what is now modern Nigeria. | 8 | |
| 266820467 | Islamic slave trade | After about the 9th century C.E. the expansion of the trans - Saharan and Indian ocean trade networks stimulated increased traffic in African slaves, because the demand for slaves became greater than eastern Europe could supply. As a result, Muslim merchants turned to increasingly to sub - Saharan Africa as an alternative source to slaves. | 9 | |
| 266820468 | Kebra Negast | A book written in the priestly Ethiopian language Ge'ez, that traces the Solomonic origins back the Ethiopian emperors. | 10 | |
| 266820469 | Kilwa | A thriving Swahili city - state in east Africa between the 12th and 16th centuries. | 11 | |
| 266820470 | kin based societies | A society that governs itself primarily though family and clan relationships; many existed in sub - Saharan Africa throughout history. | 12 | |
| 266820471 | kingdom of Kongo | Central African state that began trading with the Portuguese around 1500; although their kings, such as king Alfonso I, converted to Christianity, they nevertheless suffered from the slave trade. | 13 | |
| 266820472 | Koumbi - Saleh | Important trading city along the trans - Saharan trade route from the other 11th to the 13th centuries. | 14 | |
| 266820473 | Mansa Musa | Emperor of the Kingdom of Mali in Africa who made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca | 15 | |
| 266820474 | Sundiata | Founder of the Mali Empire (1240 - 1255 CE), also the inspiration of the Sundiata, and African literary and mythological work. | 16 | |
| 266820475 | Swahili | East African city - state society that dominated the coast from Mogadishu to Kilwa and was active in trade. | 17 | |
| 266820476 | trans - Saharan trade | Overland Trade routes along the Saharan desert that were used for trade between northwest Africa and the Mediterranean. | 18 | |
| 266820477 | Zanj revolt | Slave revolt led by Ali bin Muhammed in 869 C.E. The rebels successfully captured Basra in Mesopotamia and established a state in the region until they were defeated by the Abbasid Empire 14 years later. | 19 |
