World Civ Chapter 11

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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


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