Chapter 9 Flashcards

104249193	Monsoons	heavily alternating winds	0
104249194	Stateless society	common form of social organization in Africa; no heirarchy of govt officials but instead relying on kinship relationships or other forms of personal obligations for order	1
104249195	Ghana	state south of the Sahara in the Western Sudan	2
104249196	Mali	replaced Ghana between the 13th and 15th century	3
104249197	Songhay	followed Mali in the 15th and 16th centuries	4
104249198	Hausa	came to power in 15th century; further to East.	5
104249199	Sundiata	legendary "lion-king" who conquered all others in mid 13th century to found the kingdom of Mali.	6
104249200	Griots	master story tellers	7
104249201	Mansa Musa	Sundiata's grand-nephew; ruled from 1312 to 1337; dropped value of gold drastically	8
104249202	The Sawahlil Coast	east coast of Africa gained many trade centers and Islamization was developing	9
104249203	Great Zimbabwe	capital city of a powerful state on the plateau south of the Zambezi River	10
104249204	Delhi Sultanate	Islamic state	11
104249205	Marco Polo	young Italian who visited China in late 13th century; was imprisoned in Venice by soldiers from the rival trade city Genoa	12
104249206	Ibn Battuta	born in 1304 into upper class family; traveled between 1325 and 1354; religous purposes	13