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Lesson 2 Africa's Governments and Religions
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What happened to rulers and subjects in most ancient societies?
What is the place where the distance between kings and the common people wasn't great?
In Africa south of the Sahara, the distance between kings and the common people was ______________________
Why did African rulers hold meetings often?
Who called people to the king in Ghana?
What did subjects do before talking to Ghana kings?
What did subjects do to show respect to their Ghana kings?
What did subjects do after they poured dust over their heads of fell to the ground?
What did powerful states such as Ghana and Mali favor?
Who did power rest with?
What did rulers do?
What did rulers expect from their people?
What did merchants do for receiving favors from kings?
What did rulers have?
What did local rulers give to the kings?
What did the system of the interaction of kings and the people enable kingdoms to do?
What role did the kings of Ghana play?
Who did Ghana kings rule with the help of?
Where did lots of advisers come from?
The royal household included _____________________________________________________
Ghana's kings surrounded themselves with other capable advisers, such as _____________________________________________________________
How did kings assert their authority?
What happened as the Ghana empire grew?
Who governed Ghana provinces?
Who governed provinces which were made up of districts?
What was each Ghana district composed of?
What did Ghana's government have?
How did power from one ruler to another occur?
How was property inherited in Arab lands?
How did leadership pass on?
Mali's government was like that of Ghana, but ______________________________________
What did Mali have more of?
What was the result of Mali being a large empire?
Who did the royal court of Mali employ as administrators?
What did Mali's kings control?
What was Mali's empire divided into similarly to those of Ghana?
Who did Mali's kings put in charge of provinces?
Who protected Mali from invaders?
What was the result of generals protecting Mali from invaders?
Where did general come from?
What did the rulers of Mali control similarly the kings in Ghana?
What did Mali do to further increase their wealth?
What did Mali's kings do to ensure taxes and tribute were paid?
Why did Mali's kings maintain a large army?
Mali's kings maintained a large army to protect gold producers in ______________________________________
What did the army protecting territory and economy of Mali enable kings to do?
Who was Mali's most powerful king?
Mansa Musa won his subjects' loyalty by giving them ____________________________
Who could wear sewn clothing in Mali?
What was other people's clothing made of in Mali?
What made trousers awarded to military heroes a great honor?
Songhai built on the political traditions of ______________________
Songhai reached the heigh of its power under _____________________
A general and a devout Muslim, Muhammad Ture seized power in 1493 and __________________________
Who was Muhammad Ture?
What did Muhammad Ture divide Songhai into?
Who ran each province?
What did Muhammad Ture maintain the peace and security of his empire with ______________________________
What did most African societies share?
What was one common belief in African society?
Who was the creator God linked to in some religions?
Who believed in a supreme God whose sons were lesser Gods?
The Ashanti people of Ghana believed in ______________________________________________________
What did other people believe about the creator God?
The creator God was forgiving if ________________________________
What did Africans beliefs serve although being practiced in different religions in different places?
What did religions provide?
What did religion help with?
What did Africans rely on religion for?
Which special group of people were believed to have power to predict events?
Why did Kings often hire diviners?
What traditional African religions challenged by in the beginning of the 700s C.E.?
What did Berber and Arab merchants eventually introduced to West Africa?
Who eventually introduced Muslim beliefs to West Africa?
African rulers welcomed Muslim traders allowed their people to _______________________
What didn't the African rulers do until the 1000s?
What happened to much of the population south of the Sahara by the end of the 1400s?
Which area had converted to Islam by the end of the 1400s?
How did Islam make its way to Ghana?
Why did the kings of Ghana accept Islam?
What happened to tradition religious practices although the kings of Ghana being converted to Islam?
Who was Ibn Battuta?
What did Ibn Battuta set out to see in 1325?
Where did Ibn Battuta reach in 1352?
What did Ibn Battuta find out about in West Africa?
Not all West Africans were ____________
In West Africa what did people in rural areas follow?
Why did rulers and traders accept Islam?
What did Ibn Battuta learn about West African Muslims?
Who was Ibn Battuta impressed by?
What did Mansa Musa allow his subjects to do?
What was Mansa Musa devoted to?
What did Mansa Musa use his empire's wealth for?
What did Mansa Musa do in Timbuktu?
What did Mansa Musa do to Mali in 1324?
All Muslims are expected to travel to the Muslim holy city of ___________
What did Mansa Musa make sure of?
Mansa Musa traveled in ________________________
Eighty camels carried __________________
What made the price of gold fall?
Who did Mansa Musa meet while in Makkah?
What did Mansa Musa do with the scholars of Islam he met in Makkah?
Who helped Mansa Musa spread Islam in West Africa?
What religion won followers among the Songhai people?
Why did Sunni Ali become a Muslim?
What happened to Sunni Ali's son when Sunni died?
What did Muhammad Ture, a Songhai general take over?
Which Songhai general took over the Songhai government?
What did Muhammad Ture do with the backing of the townspeople?
What did Muhammad Ture do after driving out Sunni Ali's family?
What did the Songhai create under Askia Muhammad?
What did Askia Muhammad do to follow Muslim laws?
What role did Askia Muhammad assign to Timbuktu?
What did Askia Muhammad set up?
Why did Askia Muhammad open schools?
What did the Songhai Empire survive?
What led to the fall of the Songhai?
Islam spread slowly in __________________
What arrived in East Africa in 700s?
What happened in East Africa until the 1100s and 1200s?
What society arose that was based on a blend of African and Muslim cultures?
Swahili was based on a blend of ____________________________
What does the word Swahili come from?
What did Swahili refer to as by 1331?
Where did the African influences on the Swahili culture come from?
Where did Muslim influences come from?
What still thrives in Africa?
What affect did Islam had on Africa?
Africans who accepted Islam adopted _________________________
Africans were also influenced by _____________________
What did Muslim schools introduce to their students?
What else did Islam influence?
Where did Muslim architects build beautiful mosuqes and palaces?
What did Muslim architects build in Timbuktu?