Chapter 8 Review

In what ways did Islam interface with traditional African social norms and religions?

What trading network along E coast of Africa would become one of the most lucrative networks in the medieval world?

Nok culture, perhaps best known for early iron smelting as well as terra-cotta sculptures, developed near which river?

What kingdom represented an island of Christianity within a sea of Islam?

What competitor to Meroë’s economic prominence began to arise a few hundred miles to the SE (modern-day Ethiopia),

What provided the primary economic engine for the new Kushite capital of Meroe?

Where is Ghana located? What was a primary reason for Ghana’s growing importance?

Under Mansa Musa and his successors, which city emerged as a major intellectual and cultural center in W. Africa

What cosmopolitan culture, soaked in the Indian ocean, would develop along the East coast of Africa (south of the horn)

What Kingdom invaded Egypt and ruled as Pharaohs of the 25th dynasty from 747–656 BCE?

What empire emerged out of the ashes of the Ghana Empire? Who was its most notable ruler?

What kingdom in Nubia (along Nile river) emerged by the end of the second millennium BCE as a major trading state

What religion became the official state religion of Aksum in the 4th century CE?

Kushite rulers were expelled from Egypt by the _______ in the 7th century BCE

Who were the Berbers and what role did they play in trans-Saharan trade?

When and where did agriculture probably develop in Africa?

What best describes the Bantu Migration?

What religion did Mansa Musa promote throughout his empire and beyond?

When did Islam arrive in Northern Africa? What empire did the Arabs defeat in Egypt?