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Chapters 19 and 8 for Vocab Test #2. (18,17,11,16,20,10,15,13,5,6,19,8,21,14)
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11/14/2010

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Age grades
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Bantu concept in which individuals of roughly the same age carried out communal tasks appropriate for that age.
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Diviners
Definition
Mediators between humanity and supernatural beings.
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Ghana
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Kingdom in West Africa during the fifth through the thirteenth centuries whose rulers eventually converted to Islam; its power and wealth was based on dominating trans-Saharan trade.
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Griot
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An African musician-storyteller essential to oral storytelling tradition of sub-Saharan Africa.
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Kilwa
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City-state on the east coast of Africa that exported gold across the Indian Ocean.
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Kingdom of Kongo
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Kingdom dominating small states along the Congo River that maintained effective, centralized government and a royal currency until the seventeenth century.
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Kongo
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Central African state that began trading with the Portuguese around 1500; although their kings, such as King Affonso I (r. 1506-1543), converted to Christianity, they nevertheless suffered from the slave trade.
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Mali
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African kingdom founded in the thirteenth century by Sundiata; it reached its peak during the reign of Mansa Musa.
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Mansa Musa
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The grandnephew of Sundiata who made a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324. Upon his return, he built mosques and Islamic schools in Mali.
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Mecca
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City conquered by Muhammed in 630. He destroyed pagan shrines and erected mosques.
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Niani
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The prosperous capital of the Malian Empire that was linked to north Africa by a system of caravan routes.
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Solomonic Dynasty
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Group in Ethiopia (1300s) claiming descent from Israelite kings.
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Songhay
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Empire that replaced Mali in the late fifteenth century.
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Stateless societies
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Term relating to societies such as those of sub-Saharan Africa after the Bantu migrations that featured decentralized rule through family and kinship groups instead of strongly centralized hierarchies.
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Sundiata
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Founder of the Mali empire (r. 1230-1255), also the inspiration for the Sundiata, an African literary and mythological work.
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Swahili
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African city-state society that dominated the coast from Mogadishu to Kilwa and was active in trade.
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Analects
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The teachings of Confucius (551-479 B.C.E.) compiled by his disciples.
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Han Dynasty
Definition
Chinese dynasty that ruled an expanding empire with a large bureaucracy based upon Legalist and Confucian values. The empire taxed agriculture and trade and raised large armies to colonize Vietnam, Korea, and the Xiongnu territory.
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Legalism
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Chinese philosophy from the Zhou dynasty that called for harsh suppression of the common people.
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Li
Definition
Confucian concept, a sense of propriety.
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Qin
Definition
Chinese dynasty (221-207 B.C.E.) that was founded by Qin Shihuangdi and was marked by the first unification of China and the early construction of defensive walls.
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Ren
Definition
The Confucian value of propriety, courtesy, respect, and deference to elders.
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Wuwei
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Daoist concept of a disengagement from the affairs of the world.
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Xianyang
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Capital city of Qin empire.
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Xiao
Definition
Confucian concept of respect for one's parents and ancestors.
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Yellow Turban Uprising
Definition
A revolt against the land distribution policies of the Han dynasty (25-220 C.E.).
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