Mild Quiz Questions
The introduction of a new food crop about 400 C.E. encouraged a fresh migratory surge in Africa. What was the crop?
Bananas
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.
The founder of the kingdom of Mali; Ghana
"the lion prince" creates a law code and created social arrangements based on clans
Sudiata
Invention to help make trans-Saharan trade easier.
Camel Saddle
The __________ ______-_______ dominated trade along the east African coast.
The Swahili city-states
By the tenth century C.E., the kings of Ghana had converted to what religion?
Islam
a country of southern Africa. Various Bantu peoples migrated into the area during the first millennium, displacing the earlier San inhabitants
Zimbabwe
Emperor of the kingdom of Mali in Africa. He made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca and established trade routes to the Middle East.
Who is Mansa Musa?
Animals used to travel across the trans-Saharan trade routes. Could go for a long time without water.
Camel
By 1,000, most parts of Africa south of the equator had been settled by people speaking what language?
Bantu
Just as the kingdoms of west Africa were linked to the wider world by trans-Saharan trade, the Kingdoms of east Africa were linked mainly by...
Indian Ocean trade
Early African form of government and living
trade brought wealth -> boasted stone mosques and buildings
Swahili city-states
Basin of the Congo (Zaire) river, conglomeration of several village alliances, participated actively in trade networks, most centralized rule of the early Bantu kingdoms, royal currency: cowries, ruled 14th-17th century until undermined by Portuguese slave traders
Kingdom of Kongo
Slave Raiding definition:
Slave raiding is a military raid for the purpose of capturing people and bringing them from the raid area to serve as slaves.
One of the central factors in the establishment of trans-Saharan trade was the ...
increased use of the camel
Christian churches carved from rock were common in _____.
(HINT: E______.)
Ethiopia
a huge territorial empire that flourished in west Africa during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Its capital was Timbuktu, which became a center of Islamic learning.
Mali
How did Islam spread throughout Sub-Saharan Africa?
Trans-Saharan caravans (West Africa)
Maritime trade (East Africa)
Aggressive missionaries (both)
The longest river in West Africa, and a kind of trading highway in early times
Niger River
Since there was no concept of private ownership of land in sub-Saharan Africa,
slave ownership formed an important aspect of determining personal wealth
In regard to political structure, the early Bantu societies...
governed themselves mostly through FAMILY and KINSHIP GROUPS
Name the 6 empires and tell whether they are in the east or west.
W: Ghana, Mali, Songhai
E: Zimbabwe, Swahili, Ethiopia
1 kingdom divided into 7 states that were connected through kinship, blood, or ethnic ties; had no main central authority but rather ruled each state separate from one another;mainly benefited economically from the trans-Saharan trade network
Hausa Kingdoms
What was the Zanj Revolt?
The Zanj Rebellion was a major revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate, which took place from 869 until 883.
The founder of the kingdom of Mali was
Sundiata