ch 26 Flashcards

129904554	Antonianism	African syncretic religion, founded by Dona Beatriz, that taught that Jesus Christ was a black African man and that heaven was for Africans.
129904555	Christianity	Religion emerging from Middle East in the first century C.E. holding Jesus to be the son of God who sacrificed himself on behalf of mankind.
129904556	Diaspora	People who have settled far from their original homeland but who still share some measure of ethnic identity.
129904557	East India Company	British joint-stock company that grew to be a state within a state in India; it possessed its own armed forces.
129904558	Fulani	Sub-Saharan African people who, beginning in the seventeenth century, began a series of wars designed to impose their own strict interpretation of Islam.
129904559	Great Zimbabwe	Large sub-Saharan African kingdom in the fifteenth century.
129904560	Islam	Monotheistic religion of the prophet Muhammad (570-632); influenced by Judaism and Christianity, Muhammad was considered the final prophet because the earlier religions had not seen the entire picture; the Qu'ran is the holy book of Islam.
129904561	Kilwa	City-state on the east coast of Africa that exported gold across the Indian Ocean.
129904562	Kingdom of Kongo	Kingdom dominating small states along the Congo River that maintained effective, centralized government and a royal currency until the seventeenth century.
129904563	Kingdom of Ndongo	West African kingdom that between 1623 and 1663 experiences some success in resisting Portugal. By the end of the seventeenth century, the kingdom succumbs and becomes the Portuguese colony of Angola.
129904564	Kongo	Central African state that began trading with the Portuguese around 1500; although their kings, such as King Affonso I (r. 1506-1543), converted to Christianity, they nevertheless suffered from the slave trade.
129904565	Maroons	Runaway African slaves.
129904566	Muslim	A follower of Islam.
129904567	Ndongo	Angolan kingdom that reached its peak during the reign of Queen Nzinga (r. 1623-1663).
129904568	Songhay	Empire that replaced Mali in the late fifteenth century.
129904569	Swahili	African city-state society that dominated the coast from Mogadishu to Kilwa and was active in trade.
129904570	Timbuktu	City in Mali, Africa, that was notable for its Islamic university and 180 religious schools.
129904571	Triangular trade	Trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas that featured finished products from Europe, slaves from Africa, and American products bound for Europe.