World Civ Chapter 11
Ghana
800 A.D the rulers of the Soninke people were able to unite many farming villages and created this small village
Axum's important triangular trade linked
Africa, India, and the Mediterranean world
Meroe
Assyrians invaders had forced Nubian rulers to move their capital from Napata to this place
Ethiopia
Axumite kings frequently used this country's name as the term the Greeks used for the region
One of the reasons Ethiopia maintained its independence was its
Christianity unity
Which statement best described Benin and Hausa?
Farming and trading were key to their developemnet
How did Sonni Ali of Songhai differ from most other Western African rulers
He was an elected king
What major change occured in North Africa in the 700s?
Islam became the major religion
Why did the kingdom of Ghana become prosperous and powerful?
It controlled the gold-salt trade
What was Mali's relationship to Ghana?
Mali defeated Ghana to found a new empire
What caused the decline of Nubia
Nubia was conquered by Axum
Mali
Sundiata crushed their enemies won control of the gold trade route and discovered this city near by
What is one way in which Africa's geographic features influence its cutural development?
They acted as highways that eased the movement of people
nuclear family
a basic family unit, parent and child who live together
Axum
a city that extended from the mountains of present day Ethiopia
consensus
a general agreement
lineage
a group of households who claimed a common ancestors
Adulis
a port to 2 main cities located on the red Sea
griots
a professional storytellers recited ancient stories; there people preserve both history and traditional folk tales in the same way that the epic of Homer or Aryan India were passed orally from generation to generation
Sundiata
a sickly boy regarded as too weak to be a treat; Ghana's king's son
commodity
a valuable product; not that often found
Great Zimbabwe probably declined due to
civil wars and dwindling trade
desertification
devoured thousands of acres of cropland and pasturedland
King Lalibela
early 1200s this person came to power in Ethiopia
What two products dominated trade in the Sahara?
enslaved people and cloth
Savannas
grassy plain
The successful East African international trade system
helped rulers build strong city-states
Which of the following statements about Nubia is correct?
it was under Egyptian control for 500 years
Great Zimbabewe
massive stone ruins sprawl across rocky hilltops near the great bend in the Limpopo River
What factor enabled ships to sail between India and Africa?
monsoon winds
surplus
more than need; excess
Nubia
on the wide band of fertile land on the upper Nile, its an ancient kingdom
patrilineal
passed down through the father side
matrilineal
passed down through the mother side
Bantu
root language
Swahili
successful East African international trade system led to the emergence of a vibrant culture and a new language known as
One cause of migration in Africa was
the desrtification of the Sahara
Mansa Musa
the greatest ruler of the kingdom of Malil
Sahara
the largest desert in the world, is just one geographic features in the great variety of African landscapes
Songhai
the wealthy trading city of Gao had become the capital of the emerging West African kingdoms
cataracts
waterfall
