Ch. 19 AP world history Flashcards

4966745622	The great epic story of Mali is known as	the lion prince Sundiata	0
4966745623	Griots were	professional singers and storytellers	1
4966745624	The legendary Mali king, Sundiata, built his capital at	Niani	2
4966745625	Mali became the wealthiest kingdom in SubSaharan Africa because of	his control of the gold trade	3
4966745626	The introduction of a new food crop about 400 C.E. encouraged a fresh migratory surge in Africa. What was the crop?	bananas	4
4966745627	By 1000, most parts of Africa south of the equator had been settled by people speaking what language?	bantu	5
4966745628	In relation to spreading their language across a huge stretch of Africa, the Bantu played a role similar to that played by the	?	6
4966745629	By the middle of the first millennium B.C.E., the Bantu had begun to produce	iron metallurgy	7
4966745630	First domesticated in southeast Asia, this food provided a nutritious supplement to Bantu diets and allowed the Bantu to expand into forested regions.	bananas	8
4966745631	By 1000 C.E., the population of SubSaharan Africa had risen to around	22 million	9
4966745632	In regard to political structure, the early Bantu societies	had no government stateless society	10
4966745633	A Bantu village ruling council was made up of	male heads of families	11
4966745634	A Bantu district, which consisted of a group of villages,	principal focus of ethnic loyalties	12
4966745635	By the nineteenth century, the kin based society of Tiv in Nigeria numbered around	1 million	13
4966745636	The most tightly centralized of the fourteenth century Bantu kingdoms was	Kingdom of Kongo	14
4966745637	One of the central factors in the establishment of TransSaharan trade was	merchants	15
4966745638	Gao was an important trading center	a terminus of caravan routes across the Sahara	16
4966745639	The most powerful state in west Africa at the time of the arrival of Islam was	The Kingdom of Ghana	17
4966745640	The capital of the kingdom of Ghana, a major trading center, was	Koumbi Saleh	18
4966745641	By the tenth century C.E., the kings of Ghana had converted to	Islam	19
4966745642	The legendary founder of the kingdom of Mali was	Sundiata	20
4966745643	Mali would reach its peak during the reign of	Mansa Musa	21
4966745644	Which one of the following factors was not one of the foundations of Mali's power?	(pg. 491)	22
4966745645	Who made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324-1325?	Mansa Musa	23
4966745646	Swahili is an Arabic term meaning	coasters	24
4966745647	The Swahili city states	trade brought wealth to cities governed by a king who supervised trade and organized public life in the region	25
4966745648	The Swahili city state of Kilwa was ferociously sacked in 1505 by the	Portuguese mariners	26
4966745649	The most powerful kingdom in central Africa was	Zimbabwe	27
4966745650	The term zimbabwe originally referred to	dwelling of a chief, wooden residences	28
4966745651	Just as the kingdoms of west Africa depended on TransSaharan trade, the kingdoms of east Africa depended on	(pg.494)	29
4966745652	The capital of Zimbabwe was	Great Zimbabwe	30
4966745653	The conversion to Islam by east African merchants and princes did all of the following except	(pg.494)	31
4966745654	Ibn Battuta	Moroccan jurist who traveled along the Swahili coast and visited the Mali empire	32
4966745655	By the eleventh century, how many different languages were spoken in Africa?	800	33
4966745656	In the smaller states of SubSaharan Africa, the chief considerations for determining social position were	extended families and clans	34
4966745657	In regard to gender issues in SubSaharan Africa,	men-hard heavy labor, largely monopolized public authority, women enjoyed high honor as the sources of life	35
4966745658	In SubSaharan Africa, an age grade was	all individuals within a given community born within a few years of each other preformed tasks appropriate for their levels of development	36
4966745659	Since there was no concept of private ownership of land in SubSaharan Africa	???	37
4966745660	Historians estimate that between 750 and 1500 C.E., the number of slaves transported north as part of the TransSaharan slave was	10 million	38
4966745661	The term zanj refers to	black slaves from the Swahili coast	39
4966745662	Ali bin Muhammad	rebel slave organized slave force and captured Basra, established a rebel state	40
4966745663	Most SubSaharan African religions	monotheistic with lesser gods	41
4966745664	Axum was	kingdom of Axum located in highlands of modern Ethiopia converted to Christianity	42
4966745665	Ethiopian Christianity	retained basic Christian theology and rituals, reflected the interests of its African devotees. Believed a large host of evil spirits populate the world	43
4966745666	Christian churches, carved from solid rock, are an example of the influence of	Christianity	44