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Part II: African civilization and the spread of Islam

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What was the Pre-Islamic Africa like?   show
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show It was difficult bc of terrain  
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show Bantu  
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show Very few written records  
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Most communities are what ?   show
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show they were animistic and polythesitic  
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show Dancing/ drumming/ divination/ and sacrifice witchcraft/ cosmology power of natural forces; ritual and worship ancestors called upon  
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What 2 things were located in N. Africa : Islamic ?   show
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What was the agriculture like in the Sub-Saharan?   show
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What did African's exchange for manufactured goods   show
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The Sahara is the world's largest desert and acted as a what?   show
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What 2 Mediterranean cultures influenced N Africa   show
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What year was North Africans part of the Islamic empire?   show
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North Africa was a part of the Islamic Empire and what did they convert to and what culture did they adopt?   show
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African societies south of the Sahara were what ?   show
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What did they miss on bc they were isolated?   show
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show Rapid conversions by Berbers (Saharan nomads) Spreads along pre-existing caravan routes  
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show Almoravids and Almohads who are ultra- conservitives  
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Reformers launched jihad against who?   show
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show A war to spread and protect faith  
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show Almohads defeat Almoravids  
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show defeated in 1212 by an alliance of Christian kings (4)  
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show essential to spread Islam throughout Africa  
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Why is Islam attractive?   show
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show Most soci. lived in farming villages in family based clans Few soci. had written language histories were shared orally by storytellers (griots) made iron tools  
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show polytheistic  
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show Animism of which spirits exist in nature  
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What are the three ways that many small African communities are politically organized in this way?   show
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What was the lack of concentration of power and authority like?   show
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Did the soci. have good jobs?   show
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show Taxes  
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What was wrong with the military?   show
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show 1. no consensus 2. No undertaking of large building projects  
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show It was the fact it was difficult to resist external pressures  
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show Internally: problems would be resolved by allowing dissidents to leave and establish new villages  
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what happened over the course of 4,000 years of the Bantu people?   show
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show Help to spread 1. New farming 2. ironworking techniques  
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show 1. Persia 2. India 3. Rome 4. Arabia  
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show The Aksum became a wealthy (very) kingdom  
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show Indian Ocean trade network They were also shaped by cultural diffusion  
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Where was along the coast by the 13th c. ?   show
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Most merchants converted bc of ?   show
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show was a Islamic scholar/writer  
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What did Iban do?   show
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How does Iban refer to these cities?   show
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show Swahili is a language that was formed by Bantu and Arabic which emerged in urbanized trading ports  
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What is Syncretism ?   show
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Describe the Swahili civilization   show
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Kilwa, Mogadishu and Mombasa are all three related, how?   show
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Each city - state was politically what?   show
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Sharp class distinction in each city -state: what was it?   show
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show Arab Merchants  
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What did the mix fo African and Arabs cultures do?   show
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Towns had what?   show
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show Their traditional religious beliefs  
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show 1. Located on East African Coast 2. Independent City-state (Not part of a kingdom) 3. Monopolized (Controlled) gold trade with interior  
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