AP World History Chapter 9 Flashcards

12478543317	Mansa Musa	Lord of Mali	0
12478543318	Malinke people	Formed Mali	1
12478543319	Societies organized around blood relationships with little power concentration	Stateless societies	2
12478543320	Ifriqiya	Arabic for eastern north Africa	3
12478543321	Maghrib	Arabic for western north Africa	4
12478543322	Fez in Morocco and Sijilimasa	Old cities of trans-Saharan caravan trade	5
12478543323	Almoravids	Followers of the great puritanical reformist movement among the Berbers of the western Sahara; Spread Islam below the Sahara	6
12478543324	Almohadis	A reformist movement among the Islamic Berbers of north Africa; Spread Islam below the Sahara	7
12478543325	Copts	Egyptian Christians	8
12478543326	Ge'ez	Language of Axum used as a religious language among Christian Africa	9
12478543327	Amharic	Common speaking language among Christian Africa	10
12478543328	King Lalibela	Sponsored 11 stone-carved churches to be made in the town that bore his name	11
12478543329	Ethiopia and Nubia	Both Christian African kingdoms	12
12478543330	Juula	Malinke merchants	13
12478543331	Sundiata (The Lion Prince)	A member of the Keita clan who created a unified state which became the Mali Empire	14
12478543332	Griots	Oral historians who kept traditions and advised kings in Mali	15
12478543333	Ibn Battuta	Arab traveller who kept record of his experiences and described African society and cultures	16
12478543334	Timbuktu	Port city of Mali which had a university and a library; located near the Niger River	17
12478543335	Mansa	Means emperor	18
12478543336	Mansa Kankan Musa	His pilgrimage to Mecca brought Muslim attention to Mecca	19
12478543337	Ishak al-Sahili	Poet and architect from Muslim Spain who designed mosques in Mali and was brought back with Mansa Kankan Musa from his pilgrimage to Mecca	20
12478543338	Polygamy	The practice of having multiple wives	21
12478543339	Gao	Songhay's capitol	22
12478543340	Songhay	Formed independently under the Berber dynasty, reached imperial status under Sunni Ali	23
12478543341	Muhammad the Great	Islamic ruler of Songhay who extended its territory	24
12478543342	Hausa	Northern Nigerians who formed states after Songhay's decline	25
12478543343	Sunni Ali	Great tactical commander and ruthless leader of Songhay who developed a system of provincial administration to mobilize recruits for his army and rule distant captured areas farther from his capitol	26
12478543344	Askia	Military title of Songhay's Muslim leaders suceeding Sunni Ali	27
12478543345	Sharia	Islamic law	28
12478543346	Zenj	Arabic for the east African coast	29
12478543347	Benin	Powerful city-state of Yoruba	30
12478543348	Demography	The study of population	31
12478543349	Kongo	Agricultural kingdom that formed on lower Congo River ruled by hereditary monarchy	32
12478543350	Great Zimbabwe	Bantu confederation of Shona-speaking people	33