Stoneking chapter 7

First Axum king to convert to Christianity

Ezana

Rainforest, near the Equator

Central Africa

King who bought Islam to Mali

Mansa Musa

Region with Niger and Zaire Rivers

West Africa

Contains Sahara desert

North Africa

Kushite capital and major iron producer

Meroe

Highlands, cool and fertile

South Africa

Muslims from North Africa who attacked Ghana

Almoravids

Invaded Mali from the North

Berbers

Great Rift Valley

East Africa

Large plateau with savannas south of the Sahara desert

Sahel

In 1500BC the kush were taken over by the

Egyptian

Kingdom along the Red Sea that invaded the Kush around 500BC

Axum

Culture that used iron tools to increase farming and fostered Bantu peoples

Nok

The people of the Bantu Migration followed which type of regular migration pattern

None specific

Jobs that are assigned to specific age groups of males and females are called

age sets

Richest kingdom in Africa due to gold and salt deposits in its territory

Ghana

King Askia Muhammad was overthrown by

His son

Most important thing to be brought into Africa by Muslim traders

Writing

These communities became sites of major trade for East Africa

Mining

King Mansa Musa is most famous for his pilgrimage of to

Mecca

The Axum Kingdom took many life style elements from

Rome

By 330 AD the Religion in Axum was predominantly

Christian

The ____ civiliziation developed into the Kingdom of ______

Nubian; Kush

_____ easily invaded and took over Egypt with iron weapons

Assyrians

Most Bantu tribes followed their family tree though _____ lines

matrilineal

Knowledge was passed down by means of an ____ record

oral

King ____ of ____ restored trade routes in Old Ghana disrupted by invasion

Sundiata Keita; Mali

In 1589, the Moroccans attacked major trade centers of Songhai by using

Gunpowder Weapons

By 900 AD, Arabs and_________ merchants settled along the _____

Persian; East Africa

Process of exchanging ideas, ways of life, and technology is known as cultural __________

Diffusion

The ________ culture split up into hundreds of different culture groups.

Bantu

By the 1300's many of the East African _______ became a blend of ________ cultures.

City-States, African and Islamic

how did the bantu communicate w the dead

masks = link between living and dead; dancing = dance into a frenzy, altered state of reality

Who was Askia Muhammad? how did he become king

DIVIDED SONGHAI INTO FIVE PROVINCES WITH A GOVERNOR, TAX COLLECTOR, COURT OF JUDGES, TRADE INSPECTOR. muslim king was overthrown and askia was elected

what were the goods imported and exported in africa

imports: silk and porcelain from China, glass from India, carpets from Arab lands, fine pottery from Persia

exports: minerals, ivory, coconut oil, enslaved africans (Central Africa)... kola nuts, rhino horns, salt (East Africa)

who was mansa musa and why was he important

king of mali; pilgrimage to mecca

relationship between egypt kush and assyrian

kush invaded egypt, assyria invaded Egypt, Egypt invaded kush

scarification

scarring of the skin in patterns by cutting with a knife, when the cut heals, a raised pattern is created, which is painted. celebrates manhood