Important Figures
Known as the wealthiest king in all of Africa
Who is Mansa Musa?
Plague wiped out one tenth of the population, barbarian invaders, weak political system
What is reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire?
The climate of the Arabian Peninsula
What is dry/desert?
What Mansa Musa gave away on his journey to Makkah (Mecca)
Converted the Franks to Catholic Christianity
Who is Clovis?
The founder of Islam
Who is Muhammad?
Someone who is against the use of religious icons
Who is an iconoclast?
What are the Five Pillars of Islam?
Rivers controlled by the West African empires
What are the Niger and Senegal Rivers?
Protected everyone within the feudal system
Who are knights/vassals?
Moved the capital city of the Roman Empire to Constantinople.
Who is Constantine?
What are the reasons for the fall of the Byzantine Empire?
Believe that leadership strictly belongs to direct descendants of Muhammad
Who are Shia Muslims?
City in Africa that became a center of learning
What is Timbuktu?
Reason why nobles forced King John to sign the Magna Carta
What is unfair taxes?
United rural and city dwellers under a single government.
Who is Sunni Ali?
What is persecution?
The father of prophets in Islam
Who is Abraham?
Involved the transportation of enslaved Africans to the Americas, many working on plantations
What is the trans-Atlantic slave trade?
Beliefs that went against the Catholic Church teaching
What is heresy?
Excommunicated by Pope Gregory VII during the Investiture Controversy.
Who is Emperor Henry IV?
Found throughout the social class pyramid of the Byzantine Empire
Who is the clergy?
Group that took political and military control from the Abbasids
Who are the Seljuk Turks?
Group that invaded the Songhai Empire, leading to their decline
Who are Moroccan invaders?
A reason the feudal system declined
What is the Black Death?