Ch. 24A Vocab. Flashcards
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139564351 | Zulu | -A South African kingdom; expanded by defeating their rivals and then adding them to their kingdom, all of this fighting led to mass migrations and chaos -unified by Shaka in 1818 | 0 | |
139564352 | Cholera | a treatable infectious disease that can be fatal and is caused by a lack of adequate sanitation and a clean water supply | 1 | |
139564353 | Sokoto Caliphate | a primary revivalist state in Africa founded by Usuuman dan Fodio who led a jihad in 1804 against traditional animists in the region. He came out successfully and in 1809 the new Muslim state was born. A constitution was made and the state was able to retain stability. It was a large step towards spreading Islam all across Africa. | 2 | |
139564354 | Modernization | The process of reforming political, military, economic, social, and cultural traditions in imitation of the early success of Western societies, often with regard for accommodating local traditions in non-Western societies. | 3 | |
139564355 | Muhammad Ali | Albanian soldier in the service of Turkey who was made viceroy of Egypt and took control away from the Ottoman Empire and established Egypt as a modern state (1769-1849) | 4 | |
139564356 | "legitimate" trade | Exports from Africa in the nineteenth century that did not include the newly outlawed slave trade, including palm oil and ivory | 5 | |
139564357 | Recaptives | -Africans rescued by Britain's Royal Navy from the illegal slave trade of the nineteenth century and restored to free status -were helped by Christian missionaries to settle around Freetown in Sierra Leone and maintain a normal life | 6 | |
139564358 | Ismail | westernizing autocrat educated in France; promoted cotton production and European exportation; borrowed a lot of money and oversaw French building Suez canal in 1869, modernizing Cairo; grandson of Muhammad Ali | 7 | |
139564359 | Jihad | a doctrine within Islam; commonly translated as "Holy War", Jihad represents either a personal or collective struggle on the part of Muslims to live up to the religious standards set by the Qu'ran | 8 | |
139564360 | Sierra Leone | Founded in 1787 in West Africa as the first colony for freed slaves by a British antislavery group. Remained a British colony for 150 years. | 9 |