Early Africa Flashcards
1
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Bananas
A
Good for diet and economy
2
Q
Brought disease to natives
A
Bantu migrants
3
Q
Common language
A
Bantu
4
Q
Traced lineage through
A
Mother
5
Q
Religion
A
Animistic
6
Q
Stateless society
A
Not centralized
Kin based networks
7
Q
Secret societies
A
Monitored people
8
Q
Who converts to Islam
A
Upper class
9
Q
Women included
A
In trade
10
Q
Weak gov so
A
Easy to invade
11
Q
Trans-Saharan
A
Not global level
12
Q
Islamic merchants brought
A
Camels
13
Q
Africans gave
A
Gold salt and ivory
14
Q
East African coast
A
Swahili coast
15
Q
Indian Ocean cities
A
Kilwa Malindi Mogadishu Mombasa Zanzibar
16
Q
North African natives
A
Berbers
17
Q
Ifriqya
A
East Africa
18
Q
Maghrib
A
West Africa
19
Q
Jihads
A
Puritanical reformists
20
Q
Ethiopia remains
A
Christian
21
Q
Arabs called India ocean cities
A
Zanj
22
Q
Kingdoms of the grasslands
A
Ghana
Mali
Songhay
23
Q
Zanj cities open to
A
Invasion
24
Q
Most Malinke residents were
A
Farmers
25
Timbuktu is a center
Of learning
| Books
26
Mali is bigger than
Ghana
27
Juula
Malinke
28
Merchants did not try to
Convert
29
Sundiata
Founding ruler of Mali
30
Mansa musa
Deepened support for Islam by extravagant pilgrimage
| Compared to Marco Polo and ibn buttuta (all traveled Muslim world)
31
Zimbabwe government
Central gov.
32
Walls around
Cities
33
Adopted Islam
Not all
34
King Mwene mutapa
Important
35
Things all kingdoms of the grassland had in common
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Patriarchy
Linguistic/ethnicity
Power over subordinates
Tax tribute military
Rulers sacred
Islam royal cult
Militaristic
Gold salt slave trade
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36
Songhay empire
Took over from Mali
37
Askia Muhammad the great
Extended boundaries of Songhay
38
Couldn't enforce
Strict Islam
39
Zanj
Slave
40
Slave trade were mostly
Women and children
41
Swahili
Bantu language melded with Arabic
42
Hausa
Northern Nigeria
43
Ibn battuta
Scholar from Morocco
