Chapter 8 Part 2

Question 1

Professional oral historians who served as keepers of traditions and advisors to kings.

Answer 1

Griots

Question 2

Successor state to Mali; dominated middle reaches of the Niger Valley; capital at Gao.

Answer 2

Songhay

Question 3

Niger River port city of Mali; had a famous Muslim university.

Answer 3

Timbuktu

Question 4

Extended to boundaries of Songhay in the mid-16th century.

Answer 4

Muhammad the Great

Question 5

States, such as Kano, among the Hausa of northern Nigeria; combined Islamic and indigenous beliefs.

Answer 5

Hausa states

Question 6

Arabic term for people and the coast of east Africa.

Answer 6

Zenji

Question 7

Urbanized commercial centers mixing African and Arab cultures; included Mogadishu, Mombasa, Malindi, Kilwa, Pate, Zanzibar.

Answer 7

East African trading ports

Question 8

Muslim traveler who described African societies and cultures.

Answer 8

Ibn Batuta

Question 9

The change from slow to rapid population growth; often associated with industrialization; occurred first in Europe and is more characteristic of the “developed world”.

Answer 9

Demographic transition

Question 10

Central Nigerian culture with a highly developed art style flourishing between 500 B.C.E and 200 C.E

Answer 10

Nok

Question 11

Highly urbanized Nigerian agriculturists organized into small city-states, as Oyo, under the authority of regional divine kings presiding over calibrate courts.

Answer 11

Yoruba

Question 12

The holiest Yoruba city; inhabitants created terracotta and bronze portrait head that rank among the greatest achievements of African art.

Answer 12

Ile-Ife

Question 13

Nigerian city-state formed by the Edo people during the 14th century; famous for its bronze work.

Answer 13

Benin

Question 14

Peoples in Katanga; created a form of divine kingship where the ruler had powers ensuring fertility of people and crops.

Answer 14

Luba