Religion
This was a monotheistic religion that consisted of the 5 pillars and Allah.
What is the Islamic religion?
This empire consisted of the Archipelago.
What is Japan?
This empire was the first great empire of West Africa.
What is Ghana?
This is the name of the African empire that conquered Zimbabwe.
What is the Mutapa empire?
This had the greatest effect on the growth of Islam in East Africa.
What is trade and commerce?
This man was last and greatest of the prophets who began his teachings in Mecca.
Who is Muhammad?
This East African kingdom was located near Ethiopian Highlands and Nile River.
What is Aksum?
Timbuktu was located within this empire and became the key Islamic city and a center for trade.
What is the Mali empire?
This is what the northern Shona call their rulers. It means "conqueror."
What is mwene mutapa?
These languages are the basis for most African languages.
What are the Bantu languages?
This is the holy book of the Islamic religion.
What is the Qur'an?
These people lived in forests in southwestern Nigeria and had to powerful and famous kingdoms called Ife and Oro.
What is the Yoruba people?
This civilization had large advances cartography and had universities.
What is the Islamic civilization?
This is how the Mutapa empire gained large wealth.
What is mining gold?
These people's capital was Goa and their first ruler was Sunni Ali who was a very warlike ruler.
What is the Songhai empire?
The Chinese influence on Japan brought around this religion to the Japanese.
What is the Buddhism?
This was the part in Africa where most Muslim states of Africa were established.
What is West Africa?
This was in Great Zimbabwe to impress visitors of their economic power and powerful rulers.
What is the Great Enclosure?
This city-state controls trade from southern Africa to India due to location near India and Southern Africa.
What is the Kilwa City-State?
This language was a mixture of Bantu languages and Arabic.
What is the Swahili?
This is a belief in nature spirits and was the most common African religion.
What is Animism?
This is where the region of Maghrib is located.
What is along the Mediterranean Sea?
Who are the Benin people?
Starting in 1488, these people conquered Kilwa, Mombasa, and Sofala.
What are the Portuguese.
This is the split that occurred after the death of Ali or the last of the rightly guided caliphs.
What is the Sunni-Shi'a split?