Chapter 6 World History

Diverse Societies, Powerful Kingdoms

Griot

A class of spoken word historians; passed on history from father to son through oral language.

The area that separates the northern and southern parts of Africa.

The Sahara

South of Sahara

The Sahel

South of Sahel

Savannahs: fertile grasslands

On the tip of the southern region of Africa

Kalahari Desert

Bantu

Name of the people who speak over 100 languages but all share a common ancestry

Bantu valued

farming more than hunting or gathering

The Bantu Society was

a patriarchal one that valued elders and the men

Ghana’s monopoly

Gold

Ghana was separated into 2 regions:

The north, islamic practicing region
the south, the polysthesian region.

The Sundiata

rebels from the north who eventually made a more powerful kingdom in Ghana

The Sundiata became

The Mali empire and founded Timbuktu, the center of trade and learning.

Great Zimbabwe was founded by

The Shona

Great Zimbabwe had

elevated stone walls encasing its kingdom

Great Zimbabwe had traded evident by

stash of goods from foreign countries underneath house

Ibn Battuta

A Muslim traveler who documented many areas of Africa