AP World History: Chapter 8 Vocab Flashcards

5431536254	Ifriqiya	the ancient Roman term for Africa	0
5431537748	juula	Malinke merchants that formed partnerships to carry out trade throughout the Ghana Mali area	1
5431548009	emir/caliph	an Islamic title use by ruling families to reinforce their authority	2
5431555283	Benin	a large city-state of the Edo peoples that controlled land from the Niger River to the coast beginning in the 14th century	3
5431629976	Almohadis	a later reformist group that aided the penetration of Islam into sub-Saharan Africa.	4
5431629977	Demographic transition	a shift to low birth rate, low infant death rate, and stabilized population	5
5431631626	Great Zimbabwe	the largest of several stone settlement complexes in southeastern Africa that served as that kingdom's royal court	6
5431631627	Stateless societies	power organized around kinship or other forms of obligation	7
5431631628	Mali	an empire created by the Malinke people centered between the Senegal and Niger Rivers	8
5431633973	griots	professional oral historians who served as the keepers of tradition	9
5431633974	Muhammad the Great	Muslim ruler who extended the boundaries of the Songhay Kingdom to dominate the central Sudan	10
5431633975	Demography	the study of populations	11
5431637305	Yoruba	agricultural society in 12th century Nigeria supported by peasantry and dominated by a ruling family and aristocracy	12
5431637306	Maghrib	Arab term for lands to the west in North Africa	13
5431637307	Sudanic states	several kingdoms that arose during the height of Ghana's power	14
5431639631	Timbuktu	one of the great "port cities" on the Niger River, it had a population of 50,000 by the 14th century	15
5431639632	Nok	a forested area of central Nigeria where realistic and highly stylized terra-cotta art objects dating to 500 BCE have been found	16
5431639633	Kongo	kingdom on the lower Congo River that was flourishing by the 15th century	17
5431641534	Almoravids	followers of an 11th century puritanical reform among the desert Barbers of the Western Sahara	18
5431641535	sahel	an extensive grassland belt at the southern edge of the Sahara	19
5431643569	Sundiata	Malinke leader to whom the great Malinke expansion is attributed	20
5431643570	Songhay	the successor state to Mali, it dominated the middle areas of the Niger Valley	21
5431645946	Hausa	people of northern Nigeria that combined Muslim and pagan traditions	22
5431645947	Sharia	Islamic law that emphasized patrilineal customs	23
5431648742	Ibn Batuta	an Arab traveler who documented African society and culture	24
5431648743	Zenj	an Arabic term for the east African coast	25