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World History
Unit 6 test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What did Muslim scholars do to help preserve the Greek culture? | They translated the works of Aristotle and Plato into Arabic |
| What area were the Bantu people originally from before they migrated all over Africa? | The southern border of the Sahara desert |
| What effect did the Bantu migration have on the rest of Africa? | Today over 240 million people speak some version of Bantu |
| What was the main reason why the Bantu people were forced to migrate? | They used slash-burn agriculture and it destroyed the land. |
| What was Sundiata most famous for? | He re-established the gold-salt trade. |
| What famous ruler of Mali took a hajj to Mecca and ended up devaluing the price of gold for 10 years because of his spending habits? | Mansa Musa |
| How did the ruler of Ghana grow rich? | By charging a toll to go through their land |
| What two products dominated trade throughout Western Africa? | Gold & Salt |
| What animal single handedly made trade possible across the Sahara desert? | Camel |
| What religion did the people of Aksum help spread to the Ethiopians? | Christianity |
| How did Islam get spread all over Africa? | War & Trade |
| What is religious syncretism? | Blending several religions together to form a new religion |
| What caused African trade routes to keep moving further east? | The gold deposits kept moving further east |
| What helped aid trade between Africa and India? | Monsoon Winds |
| What resource did the people of Western Africa lack the most? | Salt |
| What famous Muslim traveler went all over Africa and recorded his travels? | Ibn Batutta |
| What famous Muslim created a medical encyclopedia? | Ibn Sina |
| West African story teller | Griot |
| People who descended from the same ancestor | lineage |
| Moving from one place to another | migration |
| A social system in which a family descent is traced through father | patrilineal |
| A social system in which a family descent is traced through the mother | matrilineal |
| A flat, grassy plain | savanna |
| Conditions that draw people to another location or cause people to leave their homelands to migrate to another region | push-pull factors |