Vocabulary
Professional oral historians
What is a griot?
The empire that was centered between the Senegal and Niger rivers.
What was Mali?
The term for the extensive grassland belt at the Southern edge of the Sahara.
The Sahel
This was the kingdom that became the most important African Christian outpost.
Ethiopia
Kingdom based on agriculture located on the Congo River.
What was the Kongo kingdom?
Arabic term for the east African Coast
Zenj
This word was used by Arabs for lands in Western North Africa?
Maghrib
This Christian sect broke with the Byzantines and became the Christians of Egypt.
Coptic Christianity
A powerful city-state in present day Nigeria.
Benin
Societies organized around kin-ship - lacking concentration of political power.
What are Stateless societies?
Ruler who extended the boundaries of the Songhay Empire.
Who was Muhammad the Great?
Timbuktu
Ethiopian ruler who built 11 great churches sculpted out of rock.
These were people originally from Nigeria who spread language and farming far and wide.
Who are the Bantu?
Shift to a low birth rate first emerged in western Europe and the US in the late 19th century.
Demographic Transition
Malinke merchants that carried out trade that spread throughout much of west Africa.
The Muslims ruled this area in Northern Africa
What was Tunisia?
The Ethiopian dynasty traced its origins to this famous king and queen who had "whoopie"?
Who was King Solomon and Queen of Sheba?
Confederation of people that were Shona-speaking
that was located between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers.
What was Great Zimbabwe?
Arab traveler who described African societies and cultures in his travel records.
Ibn Battuta
These people formed states that combined Pagan and Islamic traditions.
Hausa
The Roman name for North Africa to the East.
What is Ifriqiya?
Two of the Common Elements of African Societies
What are animism and ancestor worship?
Who were the Yoruba?