Aztecs
What did the Aztecs do to appease their Gods?
Human Sacrifice
Where did the Incas live?
Andes Mountains
What separated the Mali Empire from the rest of Africa?
The Sahara Desert
Are the Swahili States on the North, South, East, or West coast of Africa?
East
Islam
What are chinampas and why did the Aztecs have to use them?
Floating gardens. Because they lived in land with a lot of water.
The Inca Empire built a system of these that were compared to those built by the Roman Empire.
Roads
Mali's most famous king?
Mansa Musa
The Swahili States used this technology to connect themselves to the Indian Ocean Trade Network.
Lateen Sail
What is another name for Central America?
Mesoamerica
What was the name of the Aztec's capital city?
Tenochtitlan
The Inca Empire can organize all four sections of their empire quickly because they had this type of government.
Centralized Government
Which technology allowed the Mali to cross the Sahara Desert?
Camel Caravan
What was the name of the winds that drove the Indian Ocean Trade Network?
Monsoon
Why is it important to not only focus on written history when learning about Sub-Saharan Africa?
Sub-Saharan Africa had oral history rather than written, this means that all written history would be seen through a biased lens
Name the three theories behind Aztec Human Sacrifice
1. Appease the Gods (Religion)
2. Preserve the status quo in the afterlife (Social)
3. Intimidate rivals (Political)
The Inca used this as a way to count and keep track of information
Quipus
The Epic of Sundiata was what kind of history?
Oral
True or False: The Swahili State is a centralized government?
False. It is a collection of City States
What were the oral historians in the Mali Empire called?
Griots (Jalis)
The Aztecs were a ______ state meaning they required all surrounding states to provide gifts to them.
Tributary
The discovery of the Aztec artifact in the Incan burial ground proved what?
Europeans were wrong / Indigenous American societies were connected / had trade routes
What were Mali's two biggest natural resources?
Gold and Salt
Swahili is a language that is a mixture of these two languages
Bantu and Arabic
What was the name of the Islamic scholar who traveled around Sub-Saharan Africa and wrote about all of the places he visited?
Ibn Battuta