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chapter 9
Tropical Africa and Asia 600-1450 C.E.
Term | Definition |
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Monsoon | Wet and dry seasons that are influenced heavily by alternating winds |
Stateless society | A common form of social organization in africa during and after the bantu migration |
Ghana | South of the sahara in the western sudan, was exchanging gold from west africa for salts or dates |
Songhay | State that followed the Malik between the 15th and 16th century |
Griots | Master story tellers who advised kings and used their tales to pass down important traditions from generations to generations |
Africanity | Common qualities that existed over Africa |
Marco polo | An Italian explorer who traveled over kublias vast empire for two decades and wrote a book over what he saw |
Hausa | Powerful state in the east in the fifteenth century |
Delhi sultanate | An Islamic state where other cultural traditions are introduced into the indigenous culture |
Diasporas communities | A place where other cultural traditions are introduced |
Convergent cities | Cities that have people of different ethnicities to trade |
Sundiata | The founder of mail and nicknamed lion king |
Mali | The state that followed Ghana between the 13th and 15th century |
Swahili coast | The east coast of Africa with several trade centers |
Great Zimbabwe | A trade center and capitals with great quantities and a capital with great quantiles south of the Zimbabwe river |
Mansa musa | Sundiatas great nephew who declined golds values on the trade circuits by giving it out and encouraged the spead of Islam |
Ibn buttutata | a man who traveled over most of Southern Asia. He wrote the detailed account of the cultures he meet. |