Vocabulary
What does depleted mean?
To use something up, such as a resource.
Aksum was located in what is now present day ______.
Ethiopia
East African sailors heading across the Indian Ocean planned their journey around what?
All Bantu people share a common what?
Ancestry
The kingdom of Kongo was located in rain forests south of what river?
The Congo River
What does Tribute mean?
A tax paid or goods and services rendered in return for protection.
Aksum became a large, international trading hub in what year?
A.D 100
As trade increased in East Africa, more Muslim merchants settled there, creating a ______________________ culture and causing a cultural shift.
African-Arabic
Swahili is a _____________, or a language commonly spoken by many groups.
Lingua Franca
The Manikongo were...
Kings!
What is a Dhow?
A ship with one or two masts, used in the Indian Ocean.
King Ezana made _______________ the official religion of Aksum.
Christianity
Who was at the top of the social class in Kilwa?
The Sultan
Great Zimbabwe's rulers became rich by taxing the what that went through their land.
Trade Goods
Afonso I was a manikongo in 1509. He made an alliance with this group of people who ended up backstabbing him and taking his people as slaves.
The Portuguese
What is a Monsoon?
A strong seasonal wind in South and Southeast Asia.
Rome, Persia, China and Aksum
What group of non-African people took over most of East Africa's city-states, coastline, and commerce?
The ______________ dominated most of sub-Saharan Africa by the A.D. 300s.
Bantu
What does Zimbabwe mean?
Place of Stone Houses
What is a City-State?
A self governing unit made up of a city and its surrounding lands
Some of Aksum's trade routes were closed off in the A.D. 500s due to what two reasons?
Regional Wars and Arab Expansion
What two cultures formed to create the Swahili culture?
East African and Arabic Muslim
Great Zimbabwe's rulers governed about how many towns.
What crop, originally from Indonesia, was also a staple crop in East Africa?
Bananas!