Early Africa

Question 1

Bananas

Answer 1

Good for diet and economy

Question 2

Brought disease to natives

Answer 2

Bantu migrants

Question 3

Common language

Answer 3

Bantu

Question 4

Traced lineage through

Answer 4

Mother

Question 5

Religion

Answer 5

Animistic

Question 6

Stateless society

Answer 6

Not centralized

Kin based networks

Question 7

Secret societies

Answer 7

Monitored people

Question 8

Who converts to Islam

Answer 8

Upper class

Question 9

Women included

Answer 9

In trade

Question 10

Weak gov so

Answer 10

Easy to invade

Question 11

Trans-Saharan

Answer 11

Not global level

Question 12

Islamic merchants brought

Answer 12

Camels

Question 13

Africans gave

Answer 13

Gold salt and ivory

Question 14

East African coast

Answer 14

Swahili coast

Question 15

Indian Ocean cities

Answer 15

Kilwa
Malindi
Mogadishu
Mombasa
Zanzibar

Question 16

North African natives

Answer 16

Berbers

Question 17

Ifriqya

Answer 17

East Africa

Question 18

Maghrib

Answer 18

West Africa

Question 19

Jihads

Answer 19

Puritanical reformists

Question 20

Ethiopia remains

Answer 20

Christian

Question 21

Arabs called India ocean cities

Answer 21

Zanj

Question 22

Kingdoms of the grasslands

Answer 22

Ghana
Mali
Songhay

Question 23

Zanj cities open to

Answer 23

Invasion

Question 24

Most Malinke residents were

Answer 24

Farmers

Question 25

Timbuktu is a center

Answer 25

Of learning

Books

Question 26

Mali is bigger than

Answer 26

Ghana

Question 27

Juula

Answer 27

Malinke

Question 28

Merchants did not try to

Answer 28

Convert

Question 29

Sundiata

Answer 29

Founding ruler of Mali

Question 30

Mansa musa

Answer 30

Deepened support for Islam by extravagant pilgrimage

Compared to Marco Polo and ibn buttuta (all traveled Muslim world)

Question 31

Zimbabwe government

Answer 31

Central gov.

Question 32

Walls around

Answer 32

Cities

Question 33

Adopted Islam

Answer 33

Not all

Question 34

King Mwene mutapa

Answer 34

Important

Question 35

Things all kingdoms of the grassland had in common

Answer 35

Patriarchy 
Linguistic/ethnicity 
Power over subordinates
Tax tribute military
Rulers sacred 
Islam royal cult 
Militaristic
Gold salt slave trade

Question 36

Songhay empire

Answer 36

Took over from Mali

Question 37

Askia Muhammad the great

Answer 37

Extended boundaries of Songhay

Question 38

Couldn’t enforce

Answer 38

Strict Islam

Question 39

Zanj

Answer 39

Slave

Question 40

Slave trade were mostly

Answer 40

Women and children

Question 41

Swahili

Answer 41

Bantu language melded with Arabic

Question 42

Hausa

Answer 42

Northern Nigeria

Question 43

Ibn battuta

Answer 43

Scholar from Morocco