Chapter 8 Flashcards

226818820	Al-Maghrib	arabic term for "the west"	0
226818821	Bantus	western aftrican peoples whose migration through Africa spread languages and iron-making	1
226818822	Bard	professional storyteller, in the absence of a written language the bard is very important in preserving African traditions	2
226818823	Berbers	pastoral people of North Africa, played a key role in trans-Saharan trade	3
226818824	Coptic Christianity	Egyptian form of Christianity, popular in Ethiopia, focused on single nature of Jesus	4
226818825	Hominids	first proto-humans	5
226818826	Homo-Sapiens	immediate ancestors of man	6
226818827	Khoisan	southern African language group characterized by the use of "clicking" sounds	7
226818828	Lineage group	extended family unit or clan, key to African social system	8
226818829	Mansa	west African title for a local Chieftain, as in Mansa Musa	9
226818830	Matrilinear	lineage traced through the female line, as compared to patrilinear, common in some parts of Africa	10
226818831	Nok Culture	in northern Nigeria, one of the most active early iron-working societies in Africa, artifacts from which date back as far as 500 B.C.E.	11
226818832	Nuclear Family	a family group consisting only of father, mother, and children	12
226818833	Pantheism	belief in a single creator god from whom all things come	13
226818834	Polygyny/Polygamy	the state or practice of having more than one wife at a time	14
226818835	Stateless societies	characterized by autonomous villages organized by clans and ruled by local chieftains	15
226818836	Swahili	a mixed African-Arabian culture that developed by the twelfth century along the east coast of Africa	16
226818837	Zanj	Arabic term for east Africa, mixed African-Arabic culture	17
226818838	Zimbabwe	"sacred house" influential south African society, constructed Great Zimbabwe	18