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B 11 chapter 13 SS
B 11 africa study guide
Question | Answer |
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African Diaspora | spread of African culture around the world |
Matrilineal | tracing decent from mother |
Queen Dahia-al-kahina | fought against Muslim invaders |
jazz | developed from African music |
clan | people descended from the same ancestor |
Swahili | culture and language |
griots | storytellers |
plantations | huge farms that grew crops for sale |
Queen Nzinga | promised to free all the slaves in her kingdom |
Mansa Musa | Journeyed to Mecca in 1324 |
Plateau | an area of high flat land |
Sundiata | a great king who seized Ghana |
Sunni Ali | Leader of Songhai |
change of African slavery | arrival of the Europeans |
camels | ships of the desert |
Mansa Musa's trip to Mecca | 1) Piligrimage 2) Bring back teachers, architects, writers to spread Islam |
Ghana gained power by | taxing traders |
Earliest African art form | cave paintings |
Songs by enslaved Africans | connected them to their homeland |
Swahili culture | * influenced by Islam * on the East coast * Still exists |
Traditional African religions | believed in one supreme God |
Portuguse crop produced by African slaves | cotton, sugarcane, grapes |
Advantages of living in the rain forest kingdoms | good soil for farming, extra food, time for people to be artisans |
West african Kingdoms survived on | gold and trade |
Islams affect on Africa | helped trade, improved learning (schools and libraries), influences Swahili, influenced ideas about right and wrong |
Slavery | 1) Started with captives from raids,criminals, or enemies 2) Muslims could not enslave other Muslims 3) Europeans (Portugal) took slaves as laborers and them to work platations |