APWH U3: Chapter 8: African Civilizations and the Spread of Islam Flashcards
These cards are a compilation of various chapters from Unit Three of the AP World History curriculum. The time range of the entire collection of cards range from 600 c. CE - 1450 CE. This set specifically follows African Civilizations and the Spread of Islam. Concepts covered include:
-The links between Islam, trade, and urbanization in Sub-Saharan & Eastern Africa
-Mansa Musa, Ibn Battuta and Saladin
-Religious influences on Africa
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| 547057508 | What was the government system like in Africa? | Rulers controlled through a hierarchy of officials in stateless societies. | 0 | |
| 547057509 | What occured in 300 C.E.? | The origin of Ghana | 1 | |
| 547057510 | Shortly after the death of Muhammad, Muslim armies flooded into the North African plain, and won converts amongst who? | The Berbers | 2 | |
| 547057511 | Who were the Almoravids/Almohadis? | Islamic Berber zealot dynasties; forcibly spread Islam south of the Sahara. The Almoravids destroyed Ghana. Although the kingdom survives, the power does not. | 3 | |
| 547057512 | Mali and Songhay were what kind of political organization? | Sudanic States | 4 | |
| 547057513 | What was a major form of trade in Africa? | The gold and salt trade | 5 | |
| 547057514 | What was the significance of Timbuktu? | Acted as a major center for learning and trading. | 6 | |
| 547057515 | Who founded the empire of Mali, and what was his significance? | Sundiata; he created a unified state, and arranged the clans in a certain way based off of specialization. | 7 | |
| 547057516 | Who was Mansa Musa? | The most famous Mali leader, he made a Islamic hajj that brought attention to West Africa; causing inflation. | 8 | |
| 547057517 | Who was Ibn Battuta? | A traveler who came upon Africa and traded with them. He then spread awareness of Africa's riches and society to the East and parts of Asia. | 9 | |
| 547057518 | Who founded Songhai? | Sunni Ali. | 10 | |
| 547057519 | Who made the Songhai state the greatest it had ever been in West Africa? | Muhammad the Great | 11 | |
| 547057520 | What was unique about African lineage? | It was traced through the mothers. | 12 | |
| 547057521 | What did the Bantu language do for Africa? | It provided a lingual unity. (Mixture of Arabic and Swahili). | 13 | |
| 547057522 | What religion acted as a religious unity in Africa? | Animism. | 14 | |
| 547057523 | While North AFrica was fully involved in the Mediterranean and Arab economic world, Sub-Saharan Africa what? | Varied greatly from one region to the next. | 15 | |
| 547057524 | What did specialization do for Africa? | Encouraged local and regional trade; caused markets to grow in BOTH decentralized and structured areas. | 16 | |
| 547057525 | Although conversion took place within a certain political unity under the Abbasids, what happened? | It later broke down and caused Africa to separate into states and competing groups. | 17 | |
| 547057526 | Under pressure from Muslim invaders, a great puritanical reformist movement took place by whom? And what happened? | The Almoravids; moved south against African kingdoms & into Spain, along with the Almohadis. | 18 | |
| 547057527 | In what two cities did the Christian religious influences thrive? | Nubia and Ethopia | 19 | |
| 547057528 | What did the Hausa people do? | They formed states after the fall of Songhay that combined Muslim and Pagan traditions. | 20 |