Chapter 18: Africa and the World, 1400-1800 CE Flashcards
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Senegambia
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- West Africa, mid 15th century to 19th century CE
- Extensive trade with North African and Middle Eastern Islamic civilizations in the trans-Saharan trade and Europe and the Americas in the trans-Atlantic slave trade
- Typical communities were small, self-sufforting agricultural villages
- Senegambian slaves were, for the most part, not chattel slaves, but slavery was an institution that was active and present
- Community loyalty and control in stateless societies were a result of the age-grade systems
- Most communities had clearly define social classes with royalty, nobility, warriors, peasants and artisans, and slaves
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Benin
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Age-Grade Systems
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Oba
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Polygyny
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Taghaza
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Tuareg
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Songhai and Muhammad Toure
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Leo Africanus
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Timbuktu
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Kanem-Bornu
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Idris Alooma
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Hausaland
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14
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Muhammad Rimfa of Kano
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Ethiopia
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