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Swahili

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

Ethiopia

A(n) christian kingdom that developed in the highlands of eastern Africa under the dynasty of King Lalaibela; retained Christianity in the face of Muslim expansion elsewhere in Africa.

Incan empire

A Mesoamerican civilization in the Andes Mountains in South America that by the end of the 1400s was the largest empire in the Americas including much of what is now Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Chile; conquered by Pizarro.

black death

The epidemic form of the bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe; brought by mongols.

animism

A type of religious belief that focuses on the roles of the various gods and spirits in the natural world and in human events.

animism

A type of religious belief that focuses on the roles of the various gods and spirits in the natural world and in human events. Animist religions are polytheistic and have been practiced in almost every part of the world.

Kin-based networks

Relation between two or more people that is based on common ancestry or marriage

swahili

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

Zanj Rebellion

A series of revolts by slaves working on sugar plantations in Mesopotamia, led by Ali bin Muhammad

Trans-Saharan Trade

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

Indian Ocean Trade

connected to Europe, Africa, and China.; worlds richest maritime trading network and an area of rapid Muslim expansion.

Great Zimbabwe

A powerful sate in the African interior that apparently emerged from the growing trade in gold to the East African coast flourished between 1250 and 1350 C.E

Ghana

First known kingdom in sub-Saharan West Africa between the sixth and thirteenth centuries C.E. Also the modern West African country once known as the Gold Coast. gold and salt trade.

Zimbabwe

a country of southern Africa. Various Bantu peoples migrated into the area during the first millennium, displacing the earlier San inhabitants

Ethiopia

A Christian kingdom that developed in the highlands of eastern Africa under the dynasty of King Lalaibela; retained Christianity in the face of Muslim expansion elsewhere in Africa

Mali

Empire created by indigenous Muslims in western Sudan of West Africa from the thirteenth to fifteenth century. It was famous for its role in the trans-Saharan gold trade.

Sunidata

The "Lion Prince"; a member of the Keita clan; created a unified state that became the Mali Empire; died about 1260

Mansa Musa

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

Songhai Kingdom

Largest African trading kingdom during its time; Helped rebel against Mali; only lasted for about 100 years

Camel Saddle

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.

Black Death

the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe; brought by mongols

Ibn Battuta

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 (this was the first detailing many had access to of Asia).

Magery Kempe

wrote their autobiography, considered the first autobiography in the Eng. language. Chronicles her pilgrimages to holy sites in Europe and Asia.

Matrilineal Society

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

mexica

The name given to themselves by the Aztec people

Theocracy

government run on the basis of a religion

Incan Empire

a Mesoamerican civilization in the Andes Mountains in South America that by the end of the 1400s was the largest empire in the Americas including much of what is now Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Chile; conquered by Pizarro

Mita System

The system recruiting workers in the incan empire for particularly difficult and dangerous chores that free laborers would not accept.

Carpa Nan

during Incan rule, this is a massive roadway system made possible by captive labor, stretched 25,00 miles