Sub-Saharan Africa
The natural resources located in western Africa
Trans-Saharan Trade
What is trade between sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa that requires travel across the Sahara desert?
Peoples who are native to a certain area
What is indigenous?
Tenochtitlan
What is the capital of the Aztec Empire?
Social Heirarchy
What is a system where people are ranked in social order (i.e. nobles, clergy, peasants)?
Mansa Musa
The first Songhai leader; not written about favorably by Muslim scholars
The Mesoamerican culture that enjoyed playing ball games
What is the Maya?
What is the Inca Empire?
Chinampas
What is artificial islands created to raise crops?
The people group who migrated south and brought with them agricultural practices and ironworking
Who are the Bantu?
The religion of the Kingdom of Ethiopia
What is Christianity?
The 3 nutritious crops domesticated by Mesoamericans
What is squash, maize, and beans?
The reason for the fall of the Aztec and Inca empires
Griot
What is special class of West African people who were oral historians, passing historical knowledge from father to son across the centuries?
Three kingdoms which occupied western Africa (where all the gold and salt were)
What is the Kingdom of Ghana, the Mali Empire, and the Songhai Empire?
Indian Ocean winds that powered boats
What are monsoon winds?
A society that focuses on one or more of the following: large architectural projects, agricultural development, political structure, specific traditions and rituals, organized religion
What is a complex society?
Precious Water
What is the human blood that came from human sacrifice in the Aztec Empire?
Monopoly
What is a person or group that has sole control over a certain area of trade?
The religion that Sundiata and Mansa Musa converted to
What is Islam?
Items being traded in the Songhai Empire
What are kola nuts, salts, gold, ceramic, glass, Islamic texts, cowrie shells, and enslaved peoples?
The role of queens in Maya culture
What is warriors?
The actions the Inca took to overpower conquered people
What is taking gods hostage, building temples on sacred sites, and resettling people?
Religious Syncretism
What is the fusion of two or more religions?
Traditional African religions
What is ancestor worship and animism (ascribing spiritual qualities to inanimate objects)?
Muslims who believe in a strict, legal interpretation of Islam
What are Islamists?
The Maya were intelligent in the following
What is astronomy, mathematics, and science?
The leader who made the Mexica the leaders of the Aztec Empire
Who is Moctezuma?
Bureaucracy
What is a government that includes different departments in charge of running a specific part of the government (finances, justice, war, agriculture)?