africa

Question 1

arab merchants

Answer 1

-did much to spread Islam in places like Africa.

-maintained caravan trade routes in the Sahara.

-played a vital role in Indian Ocean trade

-dominated the East African slave trade

Question 2

Indian ocean trade

Answer 2

world’s richest maritime trading network that was essential for the prosperity of East Africa

Question 3

niger river valley

Answer 3

fertile land good for farming. Had money trade routes and was a good source of transportation.

Question 4

Sahel

Answer 4

Belt south of the Sahara where it transitions into savanna across central Africa. It means literally ‘coastland’ in Arabic.

Question 5

Swahili

Answer 5

Bantu language with Arabic loanwords spoken in coastal regions of East Africa.

Question 6

Swahili Coast

Answer 6

East African shores of the Indian Ocean between the Horn of Africa and the Zambezi River; from the Arabic sawahil, meaning ‘shores.’

Question 7

Kingdom of Mali

Answer 7

a huge territorial empire that flourished in west Africa during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Its capital was Timbuktu, which became a center of Islamic learning (see Islam). The empire controlled trade routes that stretched from the edge of the Sahara in the north to forests in the south and that carried gold and other luxuries

Question 8

lineage groups

Answer 8

an extended family unit that has combined into a larger community

Question 9

Matrilineal Society

Answer 9

a society in which descent & inheritance come through the mother’s kinship line

Question 10

Timbuktu

Answer 10

City on the Niger River in the modern country of Mali. It was founded by the Tuareg as a seasonal camp sometime after 1000. As part of the Mali empire, Timbuktu became a major major terminus of the trans-Saharan trade and a center of Islamic learning.

Question 11

Sundeita Keita

Answer 11

Built Mali Empire

Question 12

Mansa Musa

Answer 12

Emperor of the kingdom of Mali in Africa. He made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca and established trade routes to the Middle East-Ruled during height

Question 13

Mogadishu

Answer 13

A Muslim port city in East Africa founded between the eighth and tenth centuries; today it is the capital of Somalia.

Question 14

Mombasa

Answer 14

a coastal city of East Africa that was an important trade center

Question 15

Kilwa

Answer 15

one of many trading cities on the East African coast

Question 16

Husini Kubwa

Answer 16

Massive palace

Question 17

Great Mosque

Answer 17

11th century construction

Question 18

Ibn Battuta

Answer 18

Moroccan Muslim scholar, the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan.

Question 19

stateless society

Answer 19

a group of independent villages organized into clans and led by a local ruler or clan head without any central government

Question 20

Kingdom of Songhai

Answer 20

Replaced the Kingdom of Mali; known to be the largest empire in African history. Located near the Niger River Valley.

Question 21

Great Zimbabwe

Answer 21

City, now in ruins (in the modern African country of Zimbabwe), whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450, when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state.

Question 22

Trans-Saharan Trade

Answer 22

route across the sahara desert. Major trade route that traded for gold and salt, created caravan routes, economic benefit for controlling dessert, camels played a huge role in the trading

Question 23

Griot

Answer 23

A West African storyteller

Question 24

Berbers

Answer 24

A member of a North African, primarily Muslim people living in settled or nomadic tribes from Morocco to Egypt

Question 25

Kin-based society

Answer 25

Governed Bantu people. Were literally family groups. The Men formed the council, and the chief was the most qualified leader of a village. Multiple villages formed districts which composed an empire. The Chiefs were a liason among other villages and allowed the formation of ethnic loyalities.

Question 26

diviner

Answer 26

a person who is believed to have the power to foretell events

Question 27

Camel Saddle

Answer 27

An invention which gives camel riders more stability on the animal and its invention and basic idea traveled along the Trans-Saharan Caravan Trade Route. Invented somewhere between 500 and 100 BCE by Bedouin tribes.

Question 28

Camel Caravans

Answer 28

Used to travel across deserts. Fleets in the desert were camel caravans. Fleets usually meant groups on ships.

Question 29

Koumbi Saleh

Answer 29

The city in which the king of Ghana held his court

Question 30

Idolatry

Answer 30

worship of idols

Question 31

Bantu

Answer 31

A major African language family. Collective name of a large group of sub-Saharan African languages and of the peoples speaking these languages. Famous for migrations throughout central and southern Africa.

Question 32

GAO

Answer 32

Capital of Songhai

Question 33

Jenne

Answer 33

A very wealthy city from trade by the Niger River

Question 34

textile

Answer 34

woven cloth

Question 35

Dhows

Answer 35

Large ships favored by Indian, Persian, and Arab sailors that could carry up to four hundred tons of cargo.

Question 36

Kilwa Chronicle

Answer 36

Evidence that african societies were more complex than previously thought

Question 37

kingdom of ghana

Answer 37

first of the kingdoms and became most important commercial cite b/c it became a center for trade when Muslims arrived