Chapter 8 Part 3 Flashcards
Large agricultural state in the lower Congo river; capital at Mbanza Kongo.
Kongo Kingdom
Central African royal stone courts.
Zimbabwe
With massive stone buildings and walls, incorporates the greatest early building sun sub-Saharan Africa.
Great Zimbabwe
Ruler of Great Zimbabwe; controlled a large terrify reaching to the Indian Ocean.
Mwene Mutapa
The spread of the Islamic faith across the Middle East, southwestern Asia, and Northern Africa.
Islamization
(100 C.E. - 900 C.E.) Group of people and associated language which originated in Nigeria; migrated south over much of the African continent and made up a majority of the African language groups.
Bantu migration
Term used by Romans for Africa.
Ifriqiya
An Islamic term used for holy war waged to purify, spread, or protect the faith.
Jihad
(Ist-6th centuries C.E.) Developing in the Ethiopian highlands and traded with India and the Mediterranean arcas to gain Greek and Arabian cultural influences; conversion of the king to Christianity in 350 C.E. laid the basis for Ethiopian Christian culture.
Axum
Territory in east African north of the Senegal and Niger rivers; inhabited by the Soninke people in the 5ht century CE.;. Sonike called their ruler “Ghana,” thus was created the name of the kingdom.
Ghana
Malinke merchants who formed small partnerships and groups to carry out trade in west Africa.
Juula
(1464 - 1492) Ruler of Songhay who led forces to dominate the regions along
the Niger River; once conquering the region he presided over an efficient hierarchical
bureaucracy of ministers and advisors.
Sunni Ali Ber
Term meaning supreme ruler; used by Mohammad’s successors as secular and religious head of Islam.
Caliph
Designating of kinship through the mother.
Matrilineal
Codified Islamic law which is ethically based on the Qur’an and the Hadith.
Sharia
