Chapter 13 lesson 1-5
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- Why did coastal cities emerge in eastern Africa?
- Trade (demand for goods in Asia)
- How did people make their living in great Zimbabwe
- Farmers, herders, and craft workers
- What effect did the refining of gold have on work done in the area?
- Brought workers into gold mining and processing
- Who joined them?
- Arab Muslims
- How does Sunjata prove the wisdom of the old saying, "Don't judge a book by its cover?"
- By his appearance, he seemed harmless
- What did West Africa produce that cold pay for salt?
- Gold
- On what kinds of landforms were both Mombasa and Zanzilar located?
- Islands
- How would you describe the trading network that Kush controlled?
- Wealth creating network that reached the Mediterranean, Arabia, and other parts of Africa
- For what artistic and religious works is the Zagwe kingdom remembered?
- Stone churches
- What is the unsolved mystery of the walls of Great Zimbabwe?
- Why were they built?
- How were griot and scribes important to rulers of the Songhai Empire?
- They recorded Songhai historical events orally and in writing
- Suppose you make a product for which there was great demand but you could produce a very limited amount. Why would you expect to happen to the price?
- It would be high
- Name three of the Swahili cities that traded in ivory and gold?
- Mombasa, Zanzibar, Mogadishu
- What are savannas?
- Grassy, tree-dotted plains that cover a large area of Africa
- How did Arab settlers enrich Swahili civilization?
- By the language with Arab word and religion of Islam
- Who were the original people of the eastern coast
- Swahili
- Why is information about Great Zimbabwe limited?
- No oral traditions and written documents
- How did Zimbabwe's involvement in the gold trade affect life in the city?
- Enriched the rulers, made the city a trading center and increased the population
- What attracted Muslims traders to Ghana?
- "Land of Gold"
- When did Mali reach its height as an empire?
- 1300 during Mansa Musa 25 year rain
- How would you define supply and demand?
- Supply- is a quantity of some goods
- What other kinds of geographical features does Africa have?
- Deserts, rain, forests, and vast plains
- When did Aksum's rulers first support Christianity?
- A.D. 350
- Why did farmers set fires to the savannas?
- To dear land or encourage growth of the new grass for herds
- Who were their griots?
- People who tell stories that describe historical events
- How was trade important to civilizations in ancient Ethiopia?
- Basics for their economics
- What process did they use?
- Heated the granite store then split them into brick size pieces
- What rule of economics did the kings of Ghana use in making gold available?
- Supply and demand
- What effect did gold have on Great Zimbabwe's rulers?
- They became rich and powerful
- Explain the effects produced when Ghana's King kept gold scarce in the marketplace?
- Made the price higher
- What is the final unsolved mystery of Great Zimbabwe
- Why was it abandoned?
- What area of Africa does a savanna cover?
- Across north central Africa down south to Southwestern Africa up around the Namib and Kalahari deserts to the west coast
- What crops did they grow on the savannas?
- Grains- millet and surgeon
- Who was Lalibela?
- Powerful Zagwe king who ruled from 1185 to 1225
- What kinds of goods did African traders want in return?
- Metal tools, fine pottery, cloth, glass containers and wheat
- What purposes might the walls of Great Zimbabwe have served?
- To keep something in or out, protection, and privacy
- Why would savannas be better for farming than many other areas of Africa?
- The deserts and cliffs and canons are not suitable for farming
- What major geographical feature of Africa have we already studied?
- Nile River
- In what kind of houses did they live in?
- Made of mud
- How did life in Mogadishu reflect the importance of trade in the Swahili cites?
- Sailors and merchants from Asia filling the city and Arab traders were the leading citizens
- What effect did gold have on farmers and herds in the area?
- Worked hard to supply the gold workers and population
- Why was Timbuktu a crossroads of major trade routes
- It lies on the Niger River and on the edge of the Sahara desert
- How do you think the covering of the stone churches might have affected the Zagwe kingdom?
- May have heightened religious fervor it must have provided a great deal of work, and it encouraged cultural contact as stone workers came from other regions of the world to take part
- To what points did Kush's trade network extend?
- Arabia, Mediterranean, and Africa
- What happened to weaken the Ghana's King control?
- Sunjata a Mali prince conquered Ghana and other areas to create his empire
- What common product was needed in West Africa and why
- Salt- used to season food
- How was Songhai a fitting succession to Mali?
- They were both powerful
- What effect did great wealth have on Kush civilization?
- Grand places, temples and pyramid-shaped tombs, gold jewelry and statues
- What material did workers use to construct these walls?
- Granite rocks
- How long did Aksum's power as a trading center last?
- A.D. 700 about 350 years
- What role did the gold trade play in West Africa's empire?
- Created powerful and wealthy centers of trade
- Suppose you could suddenly increase production tenfold (a lot), what would happen to the price?
- It would probably go down
- What goods from inland did the eastern coastal cities make available to African traders?
- Gold, leopard skins, rhinoceros horns and ivory
- What is Lalibela remembered for?
- Was designed to look like a famous earlier church
- What caused Aksum to weaken?
- Baghdad took control of Red Sea shipping