Vocab 1
This means tracing ancestry through the mother's side.
What is matrilineal?
This is the religion that spread throughout Northern Africa during this time.
What is Islam?
This area is full of trees and bushes, it is considered "nature's greenhouse."
What is the Rainforest?
This is the name of the God of Islam.
Who is Allah?
This is the holiest city and birthplace of Islam.
What is Mecca?
This is the name of a historian that is a musician.
What is a Griot?
This is the word for people that descended from a common ancestor.
What is lineage?
This area is full of sand dunes.
What is the Sahel?
This is what people who practice Islam are called.
This is one of the pillars of Islam- it involves fasting for 30 days.
What is Ramadan?
A factor that makes people want to move to a place.
What is a pull factor?
A factor that makes people want to move out of a place.
What is a push factor?
This is a desert that takes up all of Northern Africa and is the size of the United States.
What is the Sahara?
This is what the holy book is called in Islam.
What is the Qur'an?
Ramadan (fasting), Alms (giving to charity), Prayer, Faith (only one God), Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca).
These are the two areas that Islam influenced during this time (Ex: continents/areas).
What is Africa and the Middle East?
The belief that spirits are present in animals, plants, and other natural objects.
What is animism?
This area is made up of fertile soil and land. Many farmers use this population to farm.
What are Mediterranean Areas?
This is the place of worship in Islam.
What is a mosque?
This person met angel Gabriel and then created Islam.
Who is Muhammad?
Cultural group in which authority is shared by lineages of equal power instead of being exercised by a central government.
What is stateless society?
A political unit in which a number of peoples or countries are controlled by a single ruler.
What is an empire?
This is an area of tall grass and trees and makes up 40% of the continent of Africa.
What are the Savanas?
These are the duties/responsibilities of all Muslims.
What are the 5 Pillars?
This pillar of Islam asks that all Muslims go to Mecca at least once in their lifetime.
What is Hajj?