History unit 15

North and Central Africa developed ____a_____ societies, ____b____ societies and ____c____ states.

a) hunting-gathering
b) stateless
c)Muslim

How is an argument settled in Efe society?

They have a long discussion or a group member will move.

What sort of food do the Efe hunt and gather in the Ituri forest?

Women gather roots, yams, mushrooms and wild weeds. Men hunt monkeys.

What is an age-set system?

There are sets of people around the same age group that pass through identified life stages together.

What role did Islam play in the political history of North Africa?

It helped bring Muslim states in order.

How were the Almoravid and Almohad empires simular and how were they different?

Same: They both believed in Islam laws.
Different: They believed in different parts of the Islam law.

From 800-1500 there were three African societies. Where were the hunter-gatherers located?

South Africa

Where were the Muslim states located?

North Africa

Where were the Stateless societies located?

Central Africa

What were three rich and powerful states in West Africa?

Ghana, Mali and Songhai

What accounted for Ghana's financial success?

Taxing the goods that traders carries through their territory.

What were the two most important trade goods in Africa and where did they come from?

a) Gold came from a forest region
b) salt came from the Sahara

What were the two ways that Islam spread through Africa?

Conquest and trade

Who was Mali's first leader who took control by military victories, but turned it into a period of peace and prosperity?

Sundiata

Who was a strong Mali leader that gave away so much gold, it lost value in Egypt for 12 years?

Mansa Musa

How did Sunni Ali build an Empire?

By military conquest

What form of government was typical of the Hausa city-state?

Rulers held power over their subjects

In the 1480's ____a____ trading ships began to sail into Benin's port. This began several centuries of European inference in Africa where they ____b____ Africans and ____c____ African territories for colonies.

a) Portuguese
b) enslaved
c) seized

What city-states and empires gained wealth and how did they do it?

African city-states by developing and trading resources

How did the Swahili language evolve?

Arabic and Bantu blended

Why was it important for Kilwa to control Sofala?

So they could control overseas trade of gold.

How was Islam introduced to East Africa?

Muslim traders

Great Zimbabwe was an important city in southern Africa. Where does the word Zimbabwe come from?

A Shona phrase that means Stone houses.

What was the relationship of Great Zimbabwe to the Mutapa Empire?

Mutapa created the Mutapa empire and came from Zimbabwe.

What creation of people did the contact between Bantu speakers and Arabs lead to?

Swahili

The word comes from an Arabic term meaning "people of the coast."It refers to what African coast?

The east African coast