WHII 7 SOL Review

the longest river in West Africa, and a kind of trading highway in early times

A gum or resin which on burning yields aromatic fumes.

A river in Central Africa that flows into the Atlantic Ocean

Society in which an importance is placed on serving and helping the military

farming

Social and cultural patterns in Songhai-West Africa

Economic system: Economy based on agriculture, metallurgy, and trade of ivory and slaves

native to a certain area

Central African state that began trading with Portuguese around 1500

Political system: Elimination of clan tradition in favor of a unified government under a central leader

About 1500-1800 A.D. (C.E), African societies maintained empires throughout West Africa, East Africa, and South Africa

Between 1500-1800 African empires developed social&cultural patterns based on indigenous traditions&foreign interactions

Political system: Ruled by an absolute monarch who commanded the military and controlled an imperial bureaucracy

Social and cultural patterns in Zulu-Southern Africa

Major societies in Africa from about 1500 A.D. (C.E.) to about 1800 A.D. (C.E.)

Christian kingdom developed in highlands of eastern Africa retained Christianity in the face of Muslim expansion

stories passed down through generations by word of mouth

Major geographic features

baked earth; hard, brownish-red pottery

from or forming part of the African regions south of the Sahara desert.

A large, complex organization composed of appointed officials

Between 1500-1800 African empires developed social&cultural patterns based on indigenous traditions&foreign interactions

Political system: Ruled by a monarch with centralized power over a bureaucracy

Major geographic features of Africa helped to shape these empires and included land and water features

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Economic system: Economy based on trade of gold, ivory, and frankincense across the Sahara Desert and overseas

A king or queen who has unlimited power and seeks to control all aspects of society

peninsula of northeastern Africa (easternmost part) comprising Somalia and Djibouti and Eritrea and parts of Ethiopia

the largest desert in the world, covering most of northern Africa

of, belonging to, inherited from, or denoting an ancestor or ancestors

Economic system: Economy based on trade of slaves and gold to North Africa across the Sahara Desert and overseas

Political system: Ruled by a monarch centered on Christianity

Southern tip of Africa; first circumnavigated in 1488 by Portuguese in search of direct route to India.

Economic system: Economy based on trade of slaves and gold to North Africa across the Sahara Desert and overseas

Mali trading city that became a center of wealth and learning

monarchy in Southern Africa that extended along coast of Indian Ocean from Tugela River to Pongola River

Between 1500-1800 A.D. (C.E.), the major African empires had a variety of political and economic systems.

Economic system: Economy based entirely on agriculture and livestock

Social and cultural patterns in Asante-West Africa

It resisted British imperial ambitions for a quarter century before being absorbed into Britain.

Political system: Ruled by a monarch with centralized power over a bureaucracy

domesticated animals that are raised to be used on a farm or ranch or to be sold for profit

hard white material made from elephant tusks

Major geographic features

Social and cultural patterns in Kongo-Central Africa

Major societies in Africa from about 1500 A.D. (C.E.) to about 1800 A.D. (C.E.)

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A government ruled by a king or queen

Social and cultural patterns in Ethiopia-East Africa

An Islamic west African empire involved in the gold-salt trade

African kingdom on the Gold Coast that expanded rapidly after 1680. A major participant in the Atlantic economy