AP World History #48 Flashcards

8766742079	Who did city-states of east Africa fall under the domination of?	Portuguese merchant mariners	0
8766756384	When did the kingdom of Ghana originate?	4th or 5th century	1
8766765462	How did kings of Ghana gain financial resources needed to field a large army?	controlling and taxing trans-Saharan trade in gold	2
8766780926	What replaced Ghana as a preeminent power in west Africa during the 13 century?	Mali Empire	3
8766785674	What took the Mali Empire's place in the 15th century?	Songhay empire	4
8766791916	Where was the Songhay state based?	Gao	5
8766824241	What Songhay ruler embarked on a campaign in 1464 to conquer his neighbors and consolidated the Songhay empire?	Sunni Ali	6
8766827735	What trading cities did Sunni Ali bring under control?	Timbuktu and Jenne	7
8766837746	What did Sunni Ali do?	appointed governors to oversee provinces, created an imperial navy, built an elaborate administrative and military apparatus to oversee affairs	8
8766892131	How did the Songhay fall?	a musket-bearing Moroccan army attacked the Songhay military forces	9
8766921399	Who began to build communities in the forests south of the grasslands?	Oyo and Asante people	10
8766986227	Why did Swahili city-states decline?	Vasco da Gama skirmished forces at Mozambique and Mombasa, and eventually a Portuguese naval expedition disrupted trade patterns which led to the decline	11
8767020009	What was the best known of principal city-states in central Africa?	Kongo	12
8767033142	What country established a close political and diplomatic relationship with Kongo?	Portugal	13
8767048972	What did the kings of Kongo do to establish closer commercial relations with the Portuguese?	convert to Christianity	14
8767063093	What king of Kongo became Roman Catholic and studied the bible so much that he often forgot to eat?	King Nzinga Mbemba	15
8767074417	What was the capital of Kongo?	Mbanza	16
8767083211	What was Mbanza known to Europeans as?	São Salvador	17
8767098195	Why was Mbanza called "Kongo of the Bell"?	it had a large amount of churches	18
8767148604	What did Portuguese merchants want from Kongo?	copper, ivory, and most importantly, slaves	19
8767174726	What did the Portuguese refer to Ndongo as?	Angola	20
8767183330	What did Portuguese forces want to establish in Ndongo?	a colony to support large-scale slave trade	21
8767196282	What was Queen Nzinga's goal?	drive out the Portuguese, then the Dutch, and create a vast central African empire embracing the entire lower Congo basin	22
8767219466	What was the first European colony in sub-Saharan Africa?	Angola	23
8767246556	Who did Europeans encounter in Cape Town?	Khoikhoi people	24
8767264544	What did the Dutch settlements in Africa lay the foundation for?	a series of Dutch and British colonies	25
8767286609	Where was Islam most popular in Africa?	the commercial centers of west Africa and the Swahili city-states of east Africa	26
8768247433	Who were the most important of Muslims in sub-Saharan who were concerned with the purity of Islam?	the Fulani	27
8768255586	What did the Fulani do?	founded powerful sates, promoted the spread of Islam to the countryside, established schools to teach the Quran.	28
8768314639	Where did the Antonian Movement take place?	Kongo	29
8768321674	Who was the Antonian Movement started by?	Dona Beatriz	30
8768323837	What did Dona Beatriz claim?	St. Anthony had possessed her and chosen her to communicate his messages, she taught that Jesus Christ had been an African man, that Kongo was the holy land, and that heaven was for Africans	31
8768354936	What happened to Dona Beatriz?	she was sentenced to death and burned at the stake	32
8768364098	What was the most important American crop that came to sub-Saharan Africa?	manioc	33