Chp 8 Flashcards

263890270	egypt and carthage	both located along the Mediterranean. most significant of the early African cultures	0
263890271	Ibn Battuta	arab Muslim traveler who describes his visits to Africa. alot of what we know of Africa is from HIS perspective.	1
263890272	unity	what did African politics have a lack of?	2
263890273	Bantu migration	helped create the common linguistic base	3
263890274	Sahel	the grassland. point of exchange between sub-Saharan forests to the south and active trading network of the sahara	4
263890275	animistic	what kind of religion was common in all of Africa? (as well as a belief in creator deity) provided some underlying unity	5
263890276	Nubia	ancient kingdom of Kush. one of the Christian kingdoms of africa	6
264008118	Arab Muslims	who conquered Egypt but tolerated the Coptics?	7
264008119	classical period	Ethiopia has been Christian since the: __________	8
264008120	Solomon and Sheba	Christian dynasty emerged in 1200s that traced its roots back to: ____________	9
264008121	ethiopia	what country never gets conquered by the Muslims?	10
267135803	berbers	hundreds of different tribes that have nothing in common; converted to Islam	11
267135804	almoravids and almohadis	reform movements within Africa	12
267135805	Almoravids	first attempt to create a more orthodox version of Islam	13
267135806	merchant caravans	how does Islam spread across the Sahara?	14
267135807	gold and salt	items of exchange in trade common in Africa	15
267135808	sudanic states	empires of the western sudan located on the niger and senegal rivers	16
267135809	more womens rights	what did Islam have to adapt to when they came to Africa?	17
267135810	mansa	ruler of the Mali empire	18
267135811	sundiata	credited with the founding of Mali as an empire. the "lion prince"	19
267135812	mansa musa	makes pilgrimage to Mecca in 14th C. spreads wealth and brings back Islamic architect to build mosques in Timbuktu and Gao	20
267135813	timbuktu	what city in africa rivaled Baghdad in terms of trade?	21
267135814	Jenne and Timbuktu	"port" cities/ urban areas.	22
267135815	ibn battuta	islamic world travelor who described the "port" cities	23
267135816	mali empire	empire whose wealth was based on agriculture and gold trade. manlike people who broke away from Ghana	24
267135817	songhay kingdom	emerged as Mali's power waned. largest of the empires of the western sudan. took control of Jenne and timbuktu	25
267135818	gao	capital city of the songhay kingdom	26
267135819	askia	rulers of the songhay kingdom. were muslim but rest of the population was pagan	27
267135820	naked women	what upset orthodox Muslim clerics in the songhay kingdom?	28
267135821	hausa	carried on social, political, and religious traditions of the grasslands (although not an empire or a kingdom)	29
267135822	Morocco	songhay was conquered by a Muslim army from ___________- in 16th C.	30
267135823	slavery	commercially developed by Muslims. had existed in Africa on a small scale before contact with ISlam	31
267135824	east africa swahili coast	trading cities along horn of africa all the way to modern day Mozambique impacted by Islam	32
267135825	zenj	"east" (east africa coast)= mix of Bantu peope, indigenous people, southeast asians and eventually Arab Muslims	33
267135826	swahili language	bantu based, arabic influenced	34
267135827	islamic port cities	Zanzibar, Mogadishu, Kilwa, Mombasa	35
267135828	peoples of the forests and plains	not impacted by islam; developing on their own.	36
267135829	nok	village in forests of central Nigeria. art objects dating to 500 BCE	37
267135830	yoruba	organization of small city-states all speaking non-Bantu language	38
267135831	ife-ife	city	39
267135832	benin	city-state of the Edo people in 14th and 15th centuries. in area of Yoruba culture.	40
267135833	bantu people	agricultural people who also did weaving, pottery, and blacksmithing	41
267135834	great zimbabwe	established by the SHona people. built massive stone settlements now in ruins. controlled territory all the way to the Indian ocean.	42
274542848	stateless societies	the societies organized around kinship or other forms of obligation but no concentration of political power	43
274542849	king lalibela	the king who built 11 churches each sculpted out of rock	44
274542850	kilwa	one of the trading ports along the zenj that came under the influnce of africa	45