Chapter 15
Terms
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- matrilineal
- relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother.(Think MA)
- Swahili
- Cultural diffusion- an Arabic-influenced Bantu language that is spoken widely in eastern and central Africa.
- Great Zimbabwe
- This city became the economic, political, and religious center of its empire, due to its location which linked the goldfields with the coastal trading city of Sofala. This city had huge stone walls, and more than 10,000 people lived there.
- Songhai
- West African empire that conquered Mali and controlled trade from the 1400s to 1591. Gold and Salt trade.
- stateless societies
- cultural groups in which authority is shared by lineages of equal power instead of being exercised by a central government.
- lineage
- the people-living, dead, and unborn- who are descended from a common ancestor.
- Ghana
- West African kingdom that grew rich from taxing and controlling trade and established an empire in the 9th -11th centuries. They controlled the land and provided safe passage.
- Mali
- West African empire that flourished from 1235 to the 1400s and grew rich from trade.Ruled by M&M (Mansa Musa)
- Ibn Buttuta
- A native of Tangier in North Africa, he traveled for 27 years, visiting most of the countries in the Islamic world. Mali's justice system greatly impressed him.
- Mansa Musa
- He was a skilled military leader who became an African Muslim Ruler. He built a new Mosque at Timbuktu, controlled gold-salt trade, put down rebellions, divided territory into provinces, and appointed governors.
- patrilineal
- relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the father.Think PA)