Acadec Social Science P. 37-69

Those who adhere to the creed that explains the nature of Jesus and the Trinity

Muhammad’s tribe, which controlled Mecca

The prophet of Islam to whom the Qur’an was revealed

The first European writer who asserted Africans had histories and civilizations

The descendants of Muhammad’s Meccan enemies who took control of Islam the death of Muhammad

Rituals in Traditional African Religion that attempt to communicate with the spirit world

An important region for Portuguese plantation slavery for sugar production in Brazil,

The ancient name for Ethiopia

Formerly Yathrib, the city where Muhammad and his followers sought sanctuary in 622

In 325, determined the nature of the Trinity; important to Orthodox Christians

The leader who united the Asante ethnic group with the priest Anokye

The economic system that sought the accumulation of gold and silver to strengthen a kingdom

The ancient title of kings of Abyssinia

The Muslim empire founded in the early nineteenth century in present-day northeastern Nigeria

a Swahili boat designed with a triangular sail to take advantage of the Indian Ocean’s monsoons

Freedman who wrote an autobiography that described chattel slavery and the abolition movement

Symbols created by the Asante to represent concepts

The Abyssinian leader who allegedly brought the Ark of the Covenant to Axum

The ethnic group that built Great Zimbabwe

Also called Monophysites; the largest populations are in Egypt and Ethiopia

The capital of the Asante people

Movement to end slavery and the transatlantic slave trade

A mystical Muslim who helps other Muslims attain spiritual understanding

Oneness of God in Islam; Islamic dogma

Sunni Islam’s most important university in Africa and arguably the Muslim world

The transferable contract whereby the papacy awarded the monopoly of European trade with Africa

Wrote the first world history from a Muslim perspective

Muhammad’s actions whose guidance forms part of Muslim laws

The legendary symbol of the spirit of the Asante

Founded the first abolitionist society in England 1783