AF Module 2:3 Flashcards
Senegalese language
Wolof, Serer, Pulaar
Senegambia
Entrepot for caravan and Islamic contact
Stateless societies, age grade systems
Crops
besides the obvious millet, sorghum, yams
village staples: plantains, beans, bananas, fish, oysters, small animals
Benin
- Forest Kingdom (15/16th-19th centuries)
- The Oba brought stability and became spiritual leader (Ewuare– great warrior Oba)
- Fell to the British in the Imperialistic seizure of Africa
Songhai
- Dominated Western-central Sudan
- Capital Gao
- Rice (by slaves)
- Met their ends with the Moroccan Sultanate who wanted more of the trans-Saharan. defeated at tandibi.
Benin Trade
Traded pepper, ivory with Dutch and Portuguese
Taghaza
Settlement in WA, salt mining center
Songhai problems
- Islamic oficials alienated the king from his own people (the religion never really caught on with them)
- Warring peoples (Tuaregs, Mandinka, Fulani)
- No proper way of transferring power
Kanem Bornu
Under Idris Alooma, subdued weaker kingdoms and rose to power
Perpetuated Feudalism
Shipped eunuchs and young girls to NA for horses and firearms
Hausaland
Traded slaves and kola nuts with NA communities
Kano & Katsina - trade and Muslim intellectual centers
Jenne
Islam changed the trading city so much, it became a great market of the Muslims