Rise of Islam and Africa
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| Allah | Arabic word meaning God in Islam
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| Muhammad | Founder of Islam
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| Islam | Monotheistic religion that developed in Arabia in the 7th century
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| Muslim | Follower of Islam
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| Sahri'a | Body of law governing the lives of Muslims
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| Five Pillars of Islam | Basic religious duties that all Muslims must fulfill in order to worship God
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| Hajj | Pilgrimage to Mecca
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| Sunni | Branch of Islam whose members acknowledge the first four caliphs as the rightful succesors of Muhammad
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| Shi'a | Branch of Islam whose members acknowledge Ali and his descendants as the rightful sucessors of Muhammed
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| Caliph | Supreme political and religious leader in Muslim government
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| Islamic Caliphates | Political-religious state comprimising the Muslim community and the lands and peoples under its dominion in the centuries following the death of the Prophet Muhammad.
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| Golden Age of Muslim Culture | Period of great advances in culture and technology throughout the Muslim Empires were the ideas of the west and east were preserved and the ideas of Islam were expanded
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| Sahel | African region along the southern border of the Sahara Desert
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| Animism | Belief that spirits present in animals, plants, and other natural objects.
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| Migration | Act of moving from one place to settling in another
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| Push-Pull Factors | Conditiond that draw people to another location (pull) or cause people to leave their homelands and move to another region (push)
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| Bantu Migration | Group who migrated from West Africa into Central and Southern Africa
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| Stateless Societies | Cultural groups in which authority is shared by lineages of equal power instead of being exercised by a central government
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| Gold Salt Trade | Trade route across sub-Saharan Africa in which ghold from the west was traded for salt in the east, leading to cultural diffusion between the African and Islamic Worlds
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| Mansa Musa | Devout Muslim ruler of Mali, who created a strong central government, promoted Islam throughout his kingdom, and was known for his obscene displays of wealth and gold.
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