history Flashcards
Living in a desert
Not much water- harder to grow food
Trading
Living in a rainforest
Grow more food farming
River valley
More water farming : irrigation system
Each village formed
Self-sufficient political and economic entity
Substinence farming
Farm But only for you and family (no surplus)
Pantheism
Belief in a single creator god from whom all things came
Many African religions
Believed in after life
Lineage group
Each could trace back to a founding ancestor or group of ancestors
Such beliefs were sometimes challenged by the arrival of Islam
Rejection
Merchant
Amassed considerable profit
Coastal states
Self governing
Ghana
Great. Great commercial state
King of Ghana
Ruled by divine right and assisted by hereditary
Manss muss
Most powerful king of Mali, contributed Muslim faith
Africans lived in
Small rural villages
Slaves made up ? Percentq
75% of the population
Stateless society
Society not governed by state
Culture diffusion
Spreading out of culture
aristocracy
Govt ruled by an elite
Desertification
Process by which an are becomes a desert
Rural
Country life
Zimbabwe
Most famous powerful, prosperous community