Social studies pt.2

In 1009 ——- converted to Islam and established the Dia dynasty?

Below was the royal palace surrounded by a wall. What did the kings wealth come from?

Mt was an able administrator dividing provinces each with governors. Why did the cheif cities prosper

In the 1400s civil war caused small areas of the empire to break away. Which of these kingdoms took advantage.

In 8th cent. Muslims from from Arabian peninsula settled in these port cities. What resulted from this?

How did people live in ancient Ghana?

Sometime after 1000ad, what city did Bantu descendants establish.

9th century, muslim merchants controlled Ghanaian trade. What advantage did these merchants have over Ghanaian traders?

Swahili arose because of trade between Arabs and Bantus. Why was it necessary?

Ghana also had an abundant supply of ——?

Bantu people took part in trade along east coast. What happened following the rise of Islam?

In the 14th cent. Two monumental cities were built in kilwa?

The strong kings of Ghana ruled by applying mandatory written laws

Husuni kubwa palace had more than 100 rooms. Arab traveler IBN BATtuta visited the three cities traveling —— miles?

Why did it prosper?

Muhammad ture overthrew the son of Ali in 1493 creating the ——-dynasty

The great enclosure dominated the site as an oval surrounded by a massive wall. What did the smaller enclosures contain?

What did Ghanaians trade and export their gold for?

Ruins of Great Zimbabwe(capital) illustrate power. Zimbabwe’s gold ended up in the court of

How many camels could be loaded with goods and supplies for a caravan trek.

They used substinence farming. What?

Women’s role?

Why did it decline

What was the peoples lifestyle

what reason/s was/were salt (highly desired item) used for?

What did Ali control

Ali united rural and city dwellers under a single government. When did Songhai reach its peak power?

What else did Sundiata do?

The city was abandoned in the 15th cent. Why?

Muslim merchants brought ——?

Trading merchants became wealthy. Why did kings become wealthy?

Which two of Ali’s conquests have Songhai control of the trading empire?

Prospered from the gold and salt trade. Under Askia —— Songhai became the largest empire in African history

His pilgrimage left what image?

Which was the first great trading state in west Africa (AD 500)?

Grasslands south of Zambezi river, farming, cattle herding, and trade economy formed. From 1300-1450————was most wealthy

Merchants here grew wealthy. One of the most magnificent cities was?

Manas musa, one of the most powerful kings(ruled 1312-1337), doubled Malis size. How did he affect the government?

As time passed, a mixed African Arabian culture ———— began to emerge throughout the coastal area.

Muslim trade routes linked Arabia, north and west Africa. What was the chief trade center in the midst of prosperity?

Southern half of Africa formed slower.untill 11th cent. People lived in stateless societies. What’s that?

Why were Ghanaian blacksmiths valued?

Civil war broke out after dauds reign. Forces of ———- attacked Songhai leading to its collapse in 1600

By the 8th and 9th century, who took over much of the trade.

Berbers (fleets of the desert) carried trade in the desert. Why were camels cruicial in trans-Saharan trade?

Timbuktu became one of the intellectual capitals of Muslim world. Why did the malian monarchy weaken?

The first Songhai states benefited from —-?

Mali extended from the Atlantic coast inland to trading city Timbuktu. What did Mali build its wealth and power on?

The heartland was located in a rich gold producing area. What was the effect of the gold.

What purpose did the rulers serve?

MT expanded the empire thousands of miles along Niger River. How did he maintain peace and security in his kingdom?

Mogadishu located just north of the equator was established in the — century?

Ghana converted to Islam in late 11th cent. When was it absorbed into Mali?

Enjoyed hundreds of years of prosperity declining in 16th cent. When did Mombasa(coast of Kenya) arise?

When Mansa Musa made pilgrimage with thousands of servants carrying goods including gold. What effect did the gold have?

Where was Ghana located?

Songhai annexed large portions of Mali. In which year did Songhai replace Mali as the great power?

He even reached china and all Muslim countries. Called Kilwa beautiful and well constructed. Declined in ——?

Ghana was threatened politically. Why?

11th cent. Some of these independent villages consolidated making the first states. How were villages built?

Describe the kings of Ghana-

What were other Ghanaian exports to the Mediterranean and beyond?

It was weakens by wars and collapsed in 1100s. What rose in its place

How did Muslim merchants trade?

Which was the greatest of the trading states established in the mid 1200s by Sundiata Keita?

Which caravan description/s is correct?

In east Africa trade based societies were born. South of Axum lived which people?

In the first millennium farmers speaking the Bantu family of languages moved to the east. How?

Iron and stone tools used to farm. Men hunted or traded what?

Niger River’s floods provide rich soil for crops and cattle. Where on the rivers wide bend did Songhai establish?

Zimbabwe benefited from trade between coast and interior. Why are the massive walls of great Zimbabwe unusual?

Most were farmers growing sorghum, millet, and rice. How was society organized.

The Ghanaians lived off the land for centuries. What was the main reason their wealth prospered?

Who created the Sunni dynasty in 1464 and led Songhai’s expansion?

The authority was a local ruler

The rulers served as religious, and administrative leaders. What else was the ruler responsible for?

Sundiata is considered the founder of his nation. In 1240 he captured the capital of ——-?

What did the Bantus spread across Africa

Al Bakri, 11th century Muslim traveler said what about the kings court?

Inspired to make Timbuktu center of inflaming learning and culture. What did he do?