Vocabulary
MISC.
Trade
Culture
Politics
100
group of people in which heredity is traced through the father.
What is a patrilineal society
100
What are the four climate zones of Africa
What is the two midlatitude climates, dry climates, and tropical climates
100
This was a major export of Ghana
What is gold
100
Music and storytelling were used
to pass on history
100
Mansa Musa was responsible for making this city the intellectual capital of the Muslim world
What is Timbuktu
200
people who worked with supernatural forces to communicate with the gods
What are diviners
200
What three things did the East African territories trade?
What is ivory, spices, and slaves.
200
This was an important import for Ghana
What is salt
200
____________ were closer to the gods in African religon
What is ancestors
200
The kingdom of __________ extended from the coast of the atlantic Ocean to Timbuktu
What is Mali
300
oral historians who preserved traditions and genealogies through stories
Who were griots
300
How did trade routes developed?
What is the lack of resources in some places, and their surplus in others.
300
The "fleet of the desert" was used for trade by this group
What is the Berbers
300
group of people in which heredity is passed through the mother
What is a matrilineal society
300
The Songhai empire was most powerful under this ruler
What is Mohammad Ture
400
growing only enough crops for personal use
What is subsistence farming
400
What were leopard skins used for in Muslim countries?
What were saddles.
400
Berbers aqceuired their goods from these people, who bought them from local traders
Who were Muslim merchants
400
This was the religion of Mansa Musa
What is Islam
400
Songhai went through a rapid decline as a result of
What is Occupation by Morocco
500
community of extended families
What is a lineage group
500
a group of independent villages organized by clans, and led by a local leader
What is a stateless society
500
Knows as the first great trading state to emerge in West Africa
What is Ghana
500
Mansa Musa caused inflation of gold prices through this
What is buying items while on Hajj with gold.
500
This was the longest-lived empire
What is Axum
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