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Tropical Africa/Asia
Class assignment
Term | Definition |
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Africanity | The clear but puzzling cultural unity that existed despite the large size of the African continent |
Communal vs. Convergent cities | Uniqueness of a city (Paris, or London) vs. the similar trading cities of the world (Islamic and Chinese cities) |
Delhi Sultanate | Islamic state of northern India |
Diasporic Communities | Communities where people introduced their own cultural traditions into the indigenous culture |
Ghana | South of the Sahara in the Western Sudan |
Great Zimbabwe | Inland from the coastal cities was a powerful state on the plateau south of the Zambezi River, with a capital city known as Great Zimbabwe |
Griots | Master storytellers |
Hausa | To the East of the Niger River, this state became powerful around the 15th century |
Ibn Battuta | Muslim traveler who visited many areas of the tropics and beyond in his journeys between 1325 and 1354 |
Mali | Kingdom in Western Africa that came after Ghana and became even bigger than Ghana |
Mansa Musa | Sundiata's grand-nephew who ruled from 1312-1337 |
Marco Polo | Italian man who visited China in the late 13th century |
Monsoons | Alternating Winds |
Songhay | Located in the middle areas of the Niger River valley |
Stateless Society | Society that has no hierarchy of officials but instead relies on kinship relations or other forms of personl obligations for order. |
Sundiata | Legendary "Lion-King" who conquered all others in the mid 13th century to found the kingdom of Mali |
Swahili Coast | Another center of Islamization in the east coast that shared the same Swahilian language |