Ch 11 - Africa Flashcards

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Sahara

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A huge desert across most of North Africa

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Savanna

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Area of grassland with scattered trees

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Oral history

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Accounts of the past passed down by word of mouth

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Clan

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Group of families who trace their roots to the same ancestor

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Migration

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Movement from one country to to settle in another

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Bantu

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Large group of central and southern Africans who speak related languages

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Sub Sahara

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Area under the Sahara

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Why do we know little about the subsaharan desert

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The sagar blocked Europeans from going more south so we know little

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Property and possessions were passed down on the

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Mothers side

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What happened when Bantu moved to areas with people in them

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They either kicked them out or moved in with them and their cultures mixed

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What skills did Bantu carry with them?

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Knowledge of metalwork with iron tools for farming and hunting

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Mansa musa

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King of Mali in 1300s

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Mali

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Rich kingdom of the west African savanna

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Ghana

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The first west african kingdom based on the gold and salt trade

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Songhai

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A powerful kingdom of the west african savanna

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Ile-ife

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Capitol of kingdom of the west african rain forest

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Benin

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A kingdom of the west african rain forest

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Important river in Mali

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Mali got rich by

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Taxing all the traders who traded on the Niger River

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Giana’s Capitol

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Kumbi saleh, divided into two cities, a trading city and a royal city

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Sundiata

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Leader who united Mali in 1230 so it could take over salt and gold trade

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Mansa musa went

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On a pilgrimage to Mecca because he was Islam and brought all his slaves and gold

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Rich city in Songhai

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Songhai fell to

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Morocco because they had guns and cannons

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Leaders on ile ife
Onis
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Leaders on Benin
Obas
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We know little about ile Ife and Benin because
Located on top of earlier city | Thickly forested
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Stuff that survived from ile ife and Benin
Sculptures of onis and obas
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Kilwa
One of the trading cities on east Africa coast
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Aksum
Important East African center of trade located inland
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City state
A city that is also an independent state
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Swahili
Bantu language with Arabic words, spoken along East African coast
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Great Zimbabwe
Powerful southeastern african city
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Aksum controlled the trading of the
Red Sea
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Main good traded at Aksum
Ivory(elephant tusk)
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King ezana
King of Aksum, converted to Christianity, made Aksum Christian
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Aksum declined because
Muslims fought to get trading of the Red Sea and won, Aksum loses power
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Aksum located in present day
Ethiopia
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Aksum surrounded by ? So had little contact with ? And
Mountains, European Christians and developed own version of Christianity
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King lalibela
King of Aksum, built churches into the ground
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Swahili was developed in ? Because
Kilwa, backseat they are trading with Arabs and adopt some of their language
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Kilwa used the ? From great Zimbabwe to trade
Gold
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Zimbabwe might have fallen because
The trade routes may have moved away to favor some one else or the farmers worn out all the soil