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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