1.5 State Building in Africa

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