Ap world history: chapter 18 Flashcards

States and societies of Sub-Saharan Africa

7867042440	Bantu	The people who spread throughout Africa spreading agriculture, language, and iron. migrations, expansion, and establishments lead to changes in relationships with foraging people. The poorest people joined cultivators in Bantu society, others became forest specialist.	0
7867042441	Kin - based societies	Small scale community. No land ownership which meant no need to protect or take others. Stateless/segmentary society. No elaborate hierarchy of officials or a bureaucratic apparatus to administer affairs. Little to no government. Government through family and kinship groups	1
7867042442	Kingdom of Kongo	the most tightly centralized kingdom. Bason of the Congo (Zaire) river. Conglomeration of several village alliances. Participated actively in trade networks. Most centralized rule of the early Bantu kingdoms. Later undermined by Portuguese sleep traders.	2
7867042443	Camels	Quicken the pace of communication and transport across the Sahara. From Arabia to Egypt, and Sudan to north Africa. Replaced horses and donkeys. Helped spread Islam.	3
7867042444	Kingdom of Ghana	Principles state of west Africa at the time of the Muslims arrival. Between single and Niger river, Mali and Mauritania. Not related to modern state of Ghana. Protection against camel-driving Raiders. Center of African gold trade. Imported from south to Ghana. Sold ivory and slaves. Exchanged horses, cloth, and salt.	4
7867042445	Trans - Saharan trade	Networks that brought enormous wealth in considerable power to Ghana.	5
7867042446	Mali empire	Political leadership in west Africa fell to this powerful empire, which emerge just as the kingdom of Ghana dissolved. Benefited from the train Saharan trade.	6
7867042447	Timbuktu	Market city on the caravan route. Prosperous centers featuring buildings of brick and stone.	7
7867042448	Mansa Musa	Highest point of trade and empire. I deserved Islam by making a Haji: had a big caravan with lots of soldiers, attendance, subjects, slaves, and camels with God. This year we didn't so much Gold that metal value decline by 25%.	8
7867042449	Swahili	Coastal city. Engage in trade along east African pissed. They had the Bantu language with words and ideas from Arabic. Similar patterns of development with respect to language, religion, architecture, and technology. It's fact it is Lanik merchants. Developed city states and the agriculture move from what flash mud to coral, stone. Chinese silk, porcelain imported.	9
7867042450	Kilwa	City - state on East African coast. Fishing, Limited trade. Turn to agriculture increase trade in pottery in stoneware. Major trading center: exported over a ton of gold per year.	10
7867042451	Zimbabwe	Dwelling of the chief. Stone complex called great Zimbabwe that indicated an increasingly complex and well organized society. Manage trade between internal and coastal regions. City of stone towers, palaces, and public buildings that served as a capital.	11
7867042452	Age grades	All individuals within a given community born within a few years of one another. Performs path appropriate for their level of development. Bonded to one another, political allies. If that were so cool ties but cross the lines of family and kinship.	12
7867042453	Zanj Revolt	Black slaves from the Swahili coast led by Ali bin Muhammad attacked the Basra, and important city of Mesopotamia. Although they lost, it clearly demonstrated that African slavery was a prominent feature of Muslim society.	13
7867042454	Islamic slave trade	Hi demand of African slaves created network throughout Africa that supplied slaves and served as a foundation for the Atlantic slave trade.	14
7867042455	Axum	Trading center. First axumites converts merchants, then king. Isolated during the Islamic period, Renaissance later. Independent development. Strong African influence. Spirit world: amulet.	15
7867042456	Ibn Rushd	His hers in Muslims when visiting Mali paid no attention to his lectures about proper behavior and dress of women in Islam.	16