1.5 State Building in Africa
Across
- 2. Successful slave revolt (869-883) by enslaved East Africans against Arab rulers in Basra.
- 5. Religion that dominated the Trans-Saharan Gold-Salt Trade and the Indian Ocean Trade Routes. Ibn Battuta visited Mali to see how it was practiced there
- 6. Religion practiced in Aksum that developed differently there than in the Roman world
- 7. historians of Africa through storytelling
- 8. Language formed by blending Bantu and Arabic in the East African coastal region.
- 10. Christian-led kingdom in Ethiopia that developed independently, blending traditional faith with Christianity.
- 15. Trade Network of trading routes across the Sahara, facilitating trade between North and West Africa
- 16. group of people in African society who have more power and prominence that in other post-classical cultures
- 17. Successor to the Ghanaian state, that became a powerful trading society in West Africa during the 12th century.
- 18. Powerful East African kingdom (12th-15th centuries) known for its stone architecture and wealth from gold trade
Down
- 1. Leader of a kin-based network (or kinship group) in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- 3. The mixing of animism, Christianity, and Islam in Africa
- 4. Decentralized social structures in Sub-Saharan Africa organized around family ties and led by a chief.
- 9. Maritime trade connecting East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia.
- 11. West African kingdom known for selling gold and ivory to Muslim traders during the 8th to 11th centuries.
- 12. Characteristic of society that illustrated wealth in post classical Africa. Since people couldn't own land, this is how they demonstrated wealth
- 13. Ethnic group in West Africa that formed seven states loosely joined by kinship ties that facilitated trade in West Africa
- 14. traditional religious idea of Africa that blends with Christianity and Islam