AP World History Chapter 8: Islam in Africa Flashcards

2155464180	Stateless Societies	Societies of varying sizes organized through kinship and lacking concentrated power	0
2155466694	Maghrib	Arabic term for western North Africa	1
2155469544	Almoravids	A puritanical Islamic reform movement among Berbers of northwest Africa	2
2155473200	Almohads	A later puritanical Islamic reform movement among the Berbers of northwest Africa	3
2155476191	Ethiopia	A Christian kingdom in the highlands of eastern africa	4
2155479905	Lalibela	13th century Ethiopian ruler who built great rock churches	5
2155484118	Sahel	The extensive grassland belt at the southern edge of the Sahara	6
2155486699	Sudanic states	States trading to North Africa and mixing Islamic and indigenous ways	7
2155490392	Mali	State of the Malinke people, centered between Senegal and Niger rivers	8
2155493068	Juula	Malinke merchants who traded throughout the Mali empire and west Africa	9
2155494353	Mansa	Title of the ruler of Mali	10
2155495784	Mansa Musa	Made a pilgrimage to Mecca and gave gold to all he saw	11
2155501934	Ishak al-Sahili	An architect who returned with Mansa Musa to Mali	12
2155503793	Sundiata	Created a unified state that became the Mali empire	13
2155505724	Griots	Professional oral historians who preserved the ancient traditions	14
2155506970	Timbuktu	Niger River port city of Mali	15
2155507911	Songhay	Successor state to Mali	16
2155509983	Muhammad the Great	Extended the boundaries of Songhay	17
2155511587	Hausa states	States among the Hausa of Northern Nigeria	18
2155514497	Zenji	Arabic term for the people and the coast of east Africa	19
2155517079	East African trading ports	Urbanized commercial centers mixing African and Arab cultures	20
2155520958	Ibn Batuta	Muslim traveler who recorded on African societies and cultures	21
2155522721	Demographic transition	The change from slow to rapid population growth	22
2155524099	Nok	Central Nigerian culture with highly developed art styles	23
2155525467	Yoruba	Nigerian agricultural city states	24
2155526901	Ile-Ife	Holiest Yoruba city	25
2155528233	Benin	Nigerian city state that was famous for its bronze work	26
2155529802	Luba	People in Katanga; king responsible for crop fertility	27
2155531689	Kongo kingdoms	Large agricultural state on the lower Congo river	28
2155533336	Zimbabwe	Central African royal stone courts	29
2155535377	Great Zimbabwe	With massive stone buildings and walls	30
2155537191	Mwene Mutapa	Ruler of Great Zimbabwe	31
2155563791	Islamization	The spread of Islamic faith across the Middle East	32
2155570685	Bantu migration	Group of people and associated language which originated in Nigeria	33
2155575147	Ifriqiya	Term used by the Romans for Africa	34
2155578706	Jihad	An Islamic term used for holy war waged to purify, spread, and protect the faith	35
2155583609	Axum	Developing in the Ethiopian highlands and traded with India and the Mediterranean areas to gain Greek and Arabian cultural influences	36
2155586155	Ghana	Territory in East African north of the Senegal and Niger rivers	37
2155590748	Sunni Ali Ber	Ruler of Songhay who led forces to dominate the regions along the Niger river	38
2155591686	Caliph	Term meaning supreme ruler	39
2155594560	Matrilineal	Designating of kinship through the mother	40
2155597431	Sharia	Codified Islamic law which is ethically based on the Qur'an and the Hadith	41