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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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What are the oral traditions like?   show
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show Preliterate which means lacking a writing system  
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What was their religion(s)?   show
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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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show trade routes and Meditteranean trade  
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show ironworking; tribes and herders  
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show They sold abundant raw materials like esp. salt  
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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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show Converted to Islam and adopted Arabic culture  
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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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show "lax" Muslims  
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show A war to spread and protect faith  
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Who won the war?   show
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show defeated in 1212 by an alliance of Christian kings (4)  
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What are they essential for?   show
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Why is Islam attractive?   show
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What are the characteristics of Sub-Saharan Africa?   show
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What was their religion ?   show
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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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Because of no consensus, what was the probelm?   show
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show Internally: problems would be resolved by allowing dissidents to leave and establish new villages  
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show The bantu people of central Africa migrated south in search of farmland  
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show Help to spread 1. New farming 2. ironworking techniques  
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The kingdom of Aksum traded with who?   show
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show The Aksum became a wealthy (very) kingdom  
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The soci. of East African participated in what?   show
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show Islamized trading ports  
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show financial motivation  
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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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show It is the merging of different cultures  
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Describe the Swahili civilization   show
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show All three are large city-state that are trading centers located along the coast  
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show It was politically independent with its own king  
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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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Tell three things about Kilwa?   show
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