Dar al-Islam
Arabic term referring to the "house of peace" and lands under Islamic rule.
What is "Dar al-Islam"?
Most of sub-Saharan Africa did not adopt centralized governments. Rather, they organized themselves in ____-based networks.
What is kin?
Describe what type of biodiversity found in East African societies.
Forests and plain regions as well as thick jungles.
This event cause the overall collapse of the Abbasids.
What was the Mongol Invasion?
Where are do turkish people originate from?
Central Asia
Describe the relationship between Hinduism and Islam during this time period.
High tension due to invasions.
Name for the traditional storytellers in African society.
What are griots?
Group of Africans who migrated to the eastern coast of Africa- bringing agriculture, cattle herding and iron metallury
Who are the Bantu?
This city was known as one of the major scholarly centers of the Abbasid empire.
What is Baghdad?
What did early European historians know Africa as within scholarly writings and explorations?
A "dark continent."
People in lower castes.
The introduction of this technology allowed for an increased amount of goods to be transferred in Trans-Saharan trade.
What is the camel saddle?
Religion that spread to the Swahili coast, aiding trade
What is Islam?
These flourished during the Golden Age of Islam.
What is algebra, geometry, and trigonometry and medical advancements
Western African societies are known as _____ states.
What are Sudanic states?
Location of the House of Wisdom, the intellectual center where scholars could study ancient texts and apply their learning to the world around them.
Where is Baghdad?
This empire was known as one of the strongest and most wealthiest of the world found in West Africa.
What is Mali?
In Swahili, a syncretic language was formed that blended traditional Bantu language with...
What is Arabic?
Describe rights and freedoms for women in most Islamic societies during this time period.
Women could own property and initiate divorce.
How and along what geographic region or land mass did Islam mainly spread in West Africa?
What are trade routes and the Sahara Desert?
Describe the group of people that led invasions into Northern India who also sacked temples and established the Delhi Sultanate.
Islamic Turkish invaders from Afghanistan.
Wealthy and generous emperor of the West African empire of Mali.
Who is Mansa Musa?
Describe to what extent did Islam affect on the interior of the African continent.
Islam did not have much affect on the interior.
This concept caused a pushback to academic approach.
What is sufism?
Describe sufisim.
Describe the impact of the Seljuk Turks to the Abbasid Empire.
Name of the Lion Prince who built the Mali empire and ruled from 1230 to 1255
Who is Sundiata?
Three main trading products of East African city-states.
What are gold, iron, and ivory?
Describe the legacy of the Abbasid Empire.
Many possible answers but along the lines of cultural renaissance with political decline.
Describe to what extent Islam impacted Southern India.
Islam does not greatly impact Southern India. People converted back to Hinduism.