Societies of West Africa
The first West African kingdom to become rich through trade
What is Ghana?
By the 1000s, this political system brought more stability to society
What is feudalism?
In January 1488, which Portuguese explorer reached the southern tip of Africa?
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
A Portuguese ship with triangular and square sails
What is a caravel?
What spurred trade inside and outside of Europe during feudal times?
What is war?
Name two great Mali leaders
Who were Sundiata and Mansa Musa?
What Europeans wanted after the Crusades
What were Asian goods
Which Portuguese explorer discovered an all-water route to Asia?
What did this mean for Portuguese trade with Asia?
Who is Vasco da Gama?
What is an all-water route meant the Portuguese could now trade with Asia without dealing with Muslims and Italians.Series of wars to capture the Holy Land
What are the Crusades?
Which German monk posted 95 statements criticizing corrupt practices of Church leaders during the early 1500s? What movement did this lead to?
Who is Martin Luther?
What is the Reformation?
West African kingdom famous for its art as well as location in the delta of the Niger River and on main trade routes
What is Benin?
How the Roman Catholic Church gained power during feudalism
What is taking on roles once held by government officials. The Church collected taxes, aided sick, and punished criminals to become a powerful, unifying force throughout Europe.
Name 2 key mistakes Christopher Columbus made in the 1400s (and why the king of Portugal opposed his plan).
What is:
1) Relying on the writings of Marco Polo and Paolo Toscanelli, who claimed Asia stretched farther from West to East than it actually did
2) He underestimated the distance around the globe, thinking the earth was only 2/3 as large as it was. Thought voyage west to Asia would be much shorter.
Political system where the king allows lords/nobles to use lands belonging to him. In return, they owe the king military service and protection for those living on the land.
What is feudalism?
Name the 3 ships assembled by Christopher Columbus.
What are:
1) Nina
2) Pinta
and 3) Santa Maria
Songhai ruler who set up an organized system of government
Who is Sunni Ali?
What business practice became increasingly important during the Renaissance economy?
What is profit?
Which 2 goals of Queen Isabella's was Columbus unable to meet?
What are:
1) bring back treasures promised to Spain's rulers
2) inability to bring Christianity to the new people. Instead, Columbus mistreated and enslaved the people of Hispaniola, making Queen Isabella angry.
Name 2 small city-states that emerged in West Africa. One arose after 1000 A.D. in northern Nigeria. The other can be found in the forests southwest of the Niger River.
Who are the Hausa and Yoruba?
Why other nations sought a water route to Asia
What is:
Italy dominated trade after developing a network during the Crusades. Other European nations wanted a share of the profits.
How Ghana's ruler benefited from controlling the gold-salt trade
What is he:
* taxed trade and became wealthy
* the wealth enabled him to pay for an army and build an empire?
Name the 5 ways that European ideas changed during the Renaissance.
What are:
1) Humanism (study of human worth, ideas, and potential)
2) Europeans spent more time studying classical education (history, philosophy, literature)
3) More realistic art
4) Muslim societies influenced European science and mathematics
5) Cartography became more scientific. ?
What are:
1) to find African gold
2) learn more about geography and
3) spread Christianity.
Name 3 key aspects of the religion followed by Muslims.
Why did Muslim empires in North Africa want to convert Ghana's people? (2 reasons)
What are:
1) one God named Allah
2) Praying 5 times/day
3) Pilgrimage to holy city of Mecca in Arabia
What are:1) convert Ghana's people to Islam and
2) control Ghana's gold trade.
At least three reasons why feudalism weakened in the 1300s
What is:
1) Trade and towns grew
2) Serfs left manors for town life, reducing the power of lords (fewer people to control)
3) bubonic plague killed 1/4 of population, reducing the number of workers
4) lords competed for laborers who survived, starting the wage system to peasants
5) feudal lords lost power and kings grew stronger (townspeople support, large armies, taxes, safer countries = trade flourished)