Flashcards 1

Question 1

Animism

Answer 1

Belief that all nature, including freaking rocks, we’re possessed by spirits ad had souls

Question 2

Griot

Answer 2

Court musician or band who sang verbal records of the history of their tribes, leaders, regions at ceremonies

Question 3

Unnavigable

Answer 3

Not being able to be sailed by ships or boats

Question 4

Smooth coastline

Answer 4

When the coastline has few natural harbors/shallow water which is bad for trade from the sea

Question 5

Savanna

Answer 5

Grassland ecosystem which makes up much of Africa w/ seasonal rains

Question 6

Bantu

Answer 6

People who migrated through sub-Saharan Africa, spreading Iron Age agricultural technologies and their language

Question 7

Desertification

Answer 7

The drying up of a region, obviously when a place turns into a desert you idiot

Question 8

Zanzibar

Answer 8

A city and island off east coast

Question 9

Songhai

Answer 9

Created from previous western African empires Ghana and Mali, TRADE w/ Arab and European

Question 10

Sankore

Answer 10

Historic pyramid shaped mosque in Timbuktu

Question 11

Wangara

Answer 11

Soninke clan specialized in gold trade, Islamic scholarship, and law

Question 12

Trans-Saharan trade

Answer 12

Berbers transported goods by camels across NW Africa

Question 13

Zambezi

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River in S Africa

Question 14

Zimbabwe

Answer 14

City located in sub-Saharan S Africa settled by Bantu farmers w/ gold

Question 15

Khoisan

Answer 15

Unifying name of the S African San and Khoi people who share Bantu characteristics

Question 16

Matrilineal

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Kinship through the mother or female line

Question 17

Patrilineal

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Kinship through the father or male line

Question 18

Noncentralized

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Autonomous villages organized by clan and ruled by a local cheiftain or clan head

Question 19

Zimbabwe

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Powerful / prosperous state

Question 20

Zambezi

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River

Question 21

Axum

Answer 21

South of Meroë, mountains near EthiopiaPart of the Red SeaObelisksStelae pillars

Question 22

Meroë

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Capital city, south of the Nile River

Question 23

Nubia

Answer 23

Region of Africa near Egypt

Question 24

Sahara

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Desert in North Africa

Question 25

Berber

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Pastoral people in North Africa , most people in Africa can trace there lineage back to Berber

Question 26

Bantu

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Farming peoples who spread the knowledge of cultivation and iron working

Question 27

Coptic

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Egyptian form of Christianity

Question 28

Nok

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Northern Nigeria, active iron working society

Question 29

Swahili

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Cosmopolitan culture and mixed ruling familyArab words and phrases + Bantu grammatical structures (language)

Question 30

Lineage group

Answer 30

A clan in African society

Question 31

Al-Maghrib

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Extent of Arab control in Africa

Question 32

Ethiopia

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Mountainous highlands near the Red Sea

Question 33

Kilwa

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Trading port, Husini Kubwa (massive, elaborate palace)

Question 34

Sahel

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Arabic for “coast” (relation to Swahili)Capital city of Ghana

Question 35

Obelisks

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Royal grave markersFuneral monuments

Question 36

Ghana

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One of te first great commercial states, upper Niger valley– grassland between Sahara and West African coast Local communities united = Ghana kingdom

Question 37

Mali

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Greatest empire after the collapse of the Ghana empire

Question 38

Timbuktu

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Trading city on the Niger River

Question 39

Gao

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Fit’s royal family to convert to Islam

Question 40

Mansa Musa

Answer 40

One of the most powerful kings in Mali