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Question 1

Mecca

Answer 1

The city they prayed towards and the holy city where people did the hajj

Question 2

Hiraj

Answer 2

Muhammed left Mecca and went to Medina and this brought many followers

Question 3

Ka’aba

Answer 3

The holy mosque of Mecca where people go during their hajj

Question 4

5 pillars

Answer 4

Prayer, Alms, faith, fasting, Pilgramige

Question 5

mosque

Answer 5

Holy house to pray at

Question 6

Qu’ran

Answer 6

Holy book that contains stories and guidance’s and history

Question 7

Sunna

Answer 7

The book of guidance for Muslims

Question 8

Sharia

Answer 8

Book of law for muslims

Question 9

What did Muslims consider Christians, Jews and themselves

Answer 9

People of the book

Question 10

Shia

Answer 10

Descendants of Ali who rejected the Umayyad rule

Question 11

Sunni

Answer 11

The group that did not reject Umayyad rule

Question 12

Sufi

Answer 12

Rejected Umayyads luxurious lifestyle and pursued a life of poverty

Question 13

Abbasids

Answer 13

killed all Ummayads and took control and oversaw the golden age

Question 14

Abbasid changed it to the capital city

Answer 14

Baghdad

Question 15

House of wisdom

Answer 15

A place where there are scholars and translators and a library

Question 16

A lot of Islam artists turned to it and it is the art of beautiful handwriting

Answer 16

Calligraphy

Question 17

Largest dessert in Africa

Answer 17

Sahara

Question 18

Sahel

Answer 18

Each year Sahara takes up more of it. Southern tip of Sahara

Question 19

Savannas

Answer 19

Most people in Africa live on them. They are grassy plains that have mountainous highlands and trees

Question 20

Animism

Answer 20

The belif in spirits in nature

Question 21

In west africa they didnt have writing so who passed down stories

Answer 21

Griots

Question 22

Nok

Answer 22

First known west African culture and first known to smelt Iron

Question 23

What did west Africans smelt a lot

Answer 23

Iron

Question 24

Djenne Djeno

Answer 24

Earliest known city south of the Sahara and was a big trade center

Question 25

What was Aksum a city centered around and why

Answer 25

It was a city centered around trade because it was on the seaport Adulis and this was on the red sea so it got all the trade

Question 26

How was Ghana getting rich

Answer 26

Taxing the traders that come through it

Question 27

In west Africa what were the two main trade things

Answer 27

Gold and salt

Question 27

Islams influence on Ghana

Answer 27

Many Ghana people converted to Islam because they had heard about it from Islamic traders

Question 28

Mali

Answer 28

an empire whos wealth was built on gold

Question 29

Sundiata

Answer 29

great leader for mali who conquered Ghana and put administrators for Malis finances and defenses

Question 30

Mansa Musa

Answer 30

Ruler of Mali after Sundiata. a devoted Muslim and went on a hajj.

Question 31

Ibn Battuta

Answer 31

A traveler and a devoted Muslim who was very impressed by Mali and praised it but when he left it fell

Question 31

Songhai

Answer 31

Right after Mali and got control of all important trade routes.

Question 32

Sunni Ali

Answer 32

ruler for Songhai who conquered many cities such as Djene and parts of Mali by building a strong army

Question 33

Askia

Answer 33

Ruler of Songhai after Sunni Ali and helped set up a great tax system

Question 34

Hausa

Answer 34

Built walled cities and was linked to trade routes that connected west african states to the Mediterranean.

Question 35

In Hausa and yourba did the people all speak the same language

Answer 35

Yes

Question 36

Where did the people of Benin and Yourba build their houses

Answer 36

In the forest

Question 37

Ife and Oyo were

Answer 37

The two largest Yourba kingdoms and the ife carved wood and ivory

Question 38

How did the Gold and salt trade work in Ghana

Answer 38

Ghana was rich in gold and poor in salt so they traded gold with Arab and Berber traders who had salt.

Question 39

How did Hausa government work

Answer 39

Each ruler governed farming villages outside city walls and they depended on the crops that those farmers got and the trade routes

Question 40

Swahili language

Answer 40

Mix of Arabic and Bantu

Question 41

Shona people established blank which was built on gold trade It was in a good location because it had good agriculture and linked sofala with the goldfields.

Answer 41

GREAT ZIMBABWE

Question 42

A man named Mutota settled in a land with fertile soil to replace Great Zimbabwe The empire conquered what is now zimbabwe. Started by Mutota

Answer 42

MUTAPA