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Module 12 Lesson 5
Module 12 Lesson 5- Eastern City-States and Southern Empires
Question | Answer |
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Aksum traded with what places? | Arabia, Persia, India, and Rome |
Aksum had a port on this sea? | Red sea |
Muslim forces took control of where in the 600s? | Arabia, the red sea, and North Africa |
Eastern Coast Cities were thriving because of trade on what ocean? | Indian Ocean |
Bantu-speaking people traveled across Africa and settled on the East coast and established what? | Farming and fishing villages that turned into sea ports |
Arabic and Bantu languages combined and created what language? | Swahili |
Africa traded what with Arabia and Asia? | Ivory, gold, tortoiseshell, ambergris, leopard skins, and rhinoceros horns |
Kilwa was growing rich because? | It was located close enough to India so ships could sail there in one monsoon season |
In the late 1200s,Kilwa gained control of what city that helped them control gold trade? | Sofala |
Portuguese ships rounded the tip of Africa in 1488 looking for what? | India |
What did they trade most in Asia? | Spices, Perfume, Silk, |
The Portuguese saw the wealth of what cities and took them over and kept them for 2 centuries? | Kilwa, Mombasa, and Sofala |
These religious people brought their religion to East Africa and it is still heavily practised there still? | Muslim/Islam |
Africans were captured and Enslaved by what people and traded as slaves? | Arab Muslims |
Enslaved Africans were sold and used in where? | Arabia, Perisa, Iraq, India, China, and Muslim ports |
Enslavement of Africans picked up dramatically when what people started enslaving Africans for colonial plantations? | Europeans |
Gold and Ivory trade helped create what wealthy city-state? | Great Zimbabwe |
Great Zimbabwe was located on a plateau between what things? | Two rivers |
What people first settled in Great Zimbabwe? | Shona |
Great Zimbabwe land was fertile and good for doing what? | Raising cattle and farming |
Zimbabwe was neer what things near Sofala that they eventually gained control of? | Trade routes |
To gain wealth, leaders collected what from traders on the trade routes and less powerful chiefs? | Taxes |
Great Zimbabwe had a social class structure, the richest people lived on the what part of the city? | Outside |
Wealthy people likely ate beef while commoners would eat? | Sheep or Goat |
By 1450, Great Zimbabwe became dormant. This is probably because of what? | The cattle and farming had worm out the land |
According to Shona Legend, Mututa left Great Zimbabwe looking for what? | Salt |
While leaving Great Zimbabwe, Mututa found a valley with what? | Fertile soil, Wood, and Rainfall |
Conquered people in Mutapa were called what? | Mutotaand |
By Mutota's death they had already done what to all of Great Zimbabwe except the eastern part? | Conqured |
In Mutapa, people were able to mine for what in rivers and streams? | Gold |
Before Matope's (Mutota's son) death, this part of the empire broke away but what stilled controlled by the Mutapa dynasty. | Southern part |
The portuguese failed to conquer the empire so they decided to do what to break up the empire instead? | Meddle with politics |