AP World, U2 Chapter 8 Flashcards

250097828	Where in Africa was agriculture first practiced?	Nubia	0
250097829	Who were the Kush replaced by?	Axum	1
250097830	What is correct about the Sahara?	from 8000 to 4000 B.C.E. there were lakes, ponds, and grasslands, desertification had begun before 3000 B.C.E, after 3000 B.C.E. the lakes dried up	2
250097831	Who were the intermediaries who carried goods across the deserts from the Mediterranean to the south in the first millennium?	Berbers	3
250097832	When was Iron in sub-Saharan Africa established?	500 CE	4
250097833	Swahili Culture of East Africa	mixture of African and Arab	5
250097834	African religion before Islam	the Ashanti people of Ghana believed in a supreme being called Nyame, pantheism, they shared a belief in the afterlife, there was a belief in a single creator gods, who was often accompanied by many lesser gods	6
250097835	What happened when Islam arrived in Egypt?	a new capital, Cairo, was established	7
250097836	What was the Christian African kingdom in a Muslim sea called?	Ethiopia	8
250097837	Kilwa	"amongst the most beautiful of cities and most elegantly built"	9
250097838	Why did Islam have an impact on the political system in West Africa?	it introduced Arabic as the first written language	10
250097839	What was the first great commercial state in West Africa?	Ghana	11
250097840	What was the great center of Islamic scholarship in West Africa?	Timbuktu	12
250097841	As the Bantu peoples moved into South Africa, they encountered two Stone Age peoples known as the:	Khoi and the San	13
250097842	Women in Africa?	Women often worked in the fields while men tended the cattle or hunted, lineage was matrilinear, they were usually subordinate to men, polygyny was common	14
250097843	When did slavery begin?	In ancient times	15
250097844	African art	was means of serving religion and the social order	16
250097845	The most famous stone buildings in sub-Saharan Africa, constructed without mortar like in Inkan Cuzco, are those at	Great Zimbabwe	17
250097846	Where are churches carved out of solid rock and great carved pillars known as stelae found?	Ethiopia	18
250097847	What is true about Africa?	Africa was an active participant in regional global trade with the Mediterranean and across the Indian Ocean at least two millennium before the arrival of the Europeans.	19
250097848	What is the great divide that seperates the nothern coast from the rest of the African continent	Sahara Desert	20
250097849	Who were the people who migrated from the Niger and Congo Rivers into East Africa at the beginning of the second millennium BCE	Bantus	21
250097850	What is the Arab name for Norther African coast west of Egypt	Al-Maghrib	22
250097851	Greeks called East Africa "Azania" and the Arabs called it	Zanj	23
250097852	What was the "click" language spoken by the Stone Age people called?	Khoisan	24