West and Southern Africa Flashcards
What is Oral tradition?
One person remembers the whole tribes history
What did people trade for from the Middle east to Mali
Salt for Gold
Who were sophisticated and cosmopolitan, as their region served as a major trading center for goods from the Africans interior?
Ancient Nubian
What was the name of a city and a kingdom?
Aksum
What was a major naval and trading power from the lot to the 7th centuries C.E.
Aksum
What is the religious significance of the Njelele and other shrines among the Shona and other language groups has been discussed at length.
The Shona migration
Who gave everybody money during his parade which ruined an entire economy for many years?
Ibn Battuta
Who built a stable economy and m aintained a large army to defen trade, said to be nearly 200,000 strong.
Tunka Manin
Who was believed to be the richest African during the Golden Age of Africa?
Mansa Musa
What was the name of the center of Islamic scholarship under several African empires, home to a 25,000-student university ans other madrasahs that served as wellsprings for the spread of Islam throughout Africa from the 13th to 16th centuries?
Timbuktu
