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World History Pre IB: Chapter 8
Flashcards for Chapter 8 world history test for Mrs. Taylors Class
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9th Grade
01/21/2011

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What originally caused the rise of Ghana?
Definition
Its middleman role in the Gold Trade.
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What are Stelaes?
Definition
Giant stone pillars that marked the Axum kings buriel ground.
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What country is believed to have been the home to the early predecessors of modern Homonids?
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Kenya
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What was Muslim conversion stimulated by?
Definition

Tax Insentives

 

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What religion did the trans-Saharan trade stimulate?
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Islamic
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True of False: Africa is home to one of the largest deposits of natural materials.
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True

 

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What two languages and what parts of them formed the Swahili language?
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Bantu grammar and Arabic Linguistics

 

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What animal helped increase the trans-Saharan trade?
Definition
The Camel
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The coming of Islam began with what?
Definition
The Arab defeat over the Byzantines.
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What desert is located in northern Africa west of the Indian Ocean and is known as 'The Greatest Desert In The World'?

 

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The Sahara
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What were the earliest and largest structures in ancient Africa?
Definition
The Pyramids of Egypt
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Originally called Bushmen by Europeans
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San
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What was the native family language of central Africa south of the Sahara?
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Bantu
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Empire located south of the Zambezi river?
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Zimbabwe
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What did most Urban life  in Africa develop from?
Definition
Small, fortified walled villages
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What are Savannahs?
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Great grasslands that border the Sahara
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What two languages merged in Southern Africa?
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Bantu and Khoison
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The western region of Africa, known as 'The Hump of Africa,' is dominated by what river?
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The Niger
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What was the relationship between different sexes in Africa.

 

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Sex differences were more relaxed than other parts of the world at this time.
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Where were the settlements of the Malay located?
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Madagascar

 

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What were Ghana's chief exports?
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Gold, leather goods, slaves and ostrich feathers

 

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What religion did Axum adopt and where was it from?
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Christiantity from Egypt
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Axum, located in modern day Ethiopia, was originally a colony of what kingdom and where was it located.

 

Definition
The Kingdom of Sheba in the Arabian Peninsula
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What was the African lineage group and who was it similar to?
Definition

Matrinilial and China/India

 

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What are bards?
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Storytellers

 

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What king kept a pro-Islamic view for his rule and what kingdom was it in?
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Mansa Musa in the Kingdom of Mali
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What was the main religion of Zhagwe

 

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Ethiopian Christian
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The Kush empire, originally called the Nubia, found what at Merobie?
Definition

Iron

 

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Where did Luba develop?

 

Definition
Southern Africa
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The Mali introduced what two fruits to Africa?
Definition
Yams and Bananas
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Why did zimbabwe decline and eventually fall?
Definition
Due to poor agricultural practices, including overgrazing.
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What affects did African tribes have on the Islamic religon?

 

Definition
They formed their own type of Islamic religion that arised from mixed Islamic and local practices
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What was the first commercial state in west Africa?
Definition
Ghana
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What did San rock paintings illsrated what type of ceremony?
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Ceremonies to induce rain
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What type of instruments did the Africans use?
Definition
Harps, bells, and xylaphones.
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Bebers served as...?
Definition
Tran-Saharan trade intermediaries
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What did most people belive about life before the introduction of Islam?
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That life had two stages; one earthy and one external
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What concepts of the Islamic religion made it favorable in Africa?

 

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Concepts of Egalitarianism and Polygamy
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Where did the minorities of Zanj originally come from?
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The Persian Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula
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Which explorer discovered the ruins of Great Zimbabwe
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Karl Mauch
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