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APAAS Unit 1
Unit 1 Ancient Africa
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| African American Studies | The interdisciplinary approach to the study of people of African descent |
| African Diaspora | The separation and spreading of Africans from their homeland through centuries of forced removal to serve as enslaved persons in the Americas and elsewhere. |
| Black studies national conference | First annual conference held at UNC in 1975 for the formalization of African World experience |
| Thelma Johnson Streat | Artist who painted Medicine and Transportation |
| Claude McKay (1889-1948) | Jamaican born leader of the Harlem Renaissance |
| known for his socialist politics. Different from the others because he adhered to old forms to write his protest poetry. The Lynching | Harlem Dancer |
| Sahara | largest desert in the world |
| Sahel | Belt south of the Sahara where it transitions into savanna across central Africa. It means literally 'coastland' in Arabic. |
| Savanna Grassland | found mainly in central Africa |
| Ethnolinguistics | A branch of linguistics that studies the relationships between language and culture and how they mutually influence and inform each other. |
| Bantu | A major African language family. Collective name of a large group of sub-Saharan African languages and of the peoples speaking these languages. Famous for migrations throughout central and southern Africa. |
| Bantu Linguistic Family | the speakers of a related group of about 600 languages that are spoken by Bantu peoples of Central |
| Egypt | This early empire has its home along Africa's longest river |
| Nubia | A civilization to the south of Egypt in the Nile Valley |
| Aksumite Empire | Isolated Christian state in Africa// northern Ethiopia// Port city--good for trade in the Indian Ocean basin. |
| Nok Society | West Africa's earliest known culture |
| lived in what is now Nigeria | |
| between 500 B.C. and A.D. 200 | |
| first people known to smelt iron | |
| fashioned iron into tools for farming and weapons for hunting | |
| King Ezana | Aksumite king who destroyed Meroe and took over the kingdom of Kush |
| Sudanic Kingdoms | large grassland region in africa that serves as the transition zone between the sahara desert in the north and the rain forests of central africa |
| Ghana | First known kingdom in sub-Saharan West Africa between the sixth and thirteenth centuries C.E. Also the modern West African country once known as the Gold Coast. gold and salt trade. |
| Mail Empire | Empire in West Africa that began in 1235 and thrived due to large gold deposits on its land. Home empire of Amanda Musa |
| Trans-Saharan trade network | route across the sahara desert. Major trade route that traded for gold and salt |
| Mansa Musa | Ruler of Mali (r. 1312-1337). His extravagant pilgrimage through Egypt to Mecca in 1324-1325 established the empire's reputation for wealth in the Mediterranean world. |
| Hajj | A pilgrimage to Mecca |
| Catalan Atlas | a medieval map created in 1375 in modern-day Spain |
| one panel shows the King of Mali | Mansa Musa |
| Timbuktu | City on the Niger River in the modern country of Mali. It was founded by the Tuareg as a seasonal camp sometime after 1000. As part of the Mali empire |
| Griots | Professional oral historians who served as keepers of traditions and advisors to kings within the Mali Empire |
| Epic of Sundiata | An epic poem of the Malinke people and tells the story of the hero Sundiata Keita |
| Syncrestism | a blending of beliefs and practices from different religions into one faith |
| Indigenous Cosmology | Archaic |
| Voodoo | Haitian version of traditional African religious beliefs that are blended with elements of Christianity. |
| Regal de Ochalfa | Famous religious artifact also known as the triple crucifix |
| Great Zimbabwe | A stone-walled enclosure found in Southeast Africa. Have been associated with trade |
| Great Enclosure | the largest of the three main sections of the Shona settlement of Great Zimbabwe - likely a royal residence |
| Swahili Coast | East African shores of the Indian Ocean between the Horn of Africa and the Zambezi River |
| from the Arabic sawahil | meaning 'shores.' |
| Indian Ocean trading network | The world's largest sea-based system of communication and exchange before 1500 C.E. |
| Nzinga Mbemba | King of Kongo south of Zaire River from 1507 to 1543 |
| converted to Christianity and took title Alfonso I | |
| under Portuguese influence attempted to Christianize all of kingdom. | |
| Kingdom of Kongo | Basin of the Congo (Zaire) river |
| African Catholicism | More conservative on gender and sexuality |
| kinship ties | social ties that generate family relationships through blood |
| Queen Idia of Benin | Queen of the Edo people from -504-1550. Played a role in the Idah war |
| Queen Njinga of Ndongo | Supplied Dutch with slaves and they helped her defeat the Portuguese in the region. made her the most powerful rulers in region |
| Lisbon | Capital of Portugal first center of import/export in the slave trade |
| Sao Tome and Principe | Island off West Africa controlled by Portugal which contained many sugar plantations worked by African Slaves |
| Chafariz d'el Rey | Painting with over 150 figures creating a busy scene in Lisbon |
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