1.5 Developments In Africa
Question: kin-based networks
Answer: System of political structure where families governed themselves and interacted.
Question: chief
Answer: Male head of the network of families who mediated conflicts and dealt with neighboring groups.
Question: Hausa Kingdoms
Answer: Hausa ethnic group formed seven city states with no central authority. Specialized city states formed. They benefited from the trans-Saharan trade.
Question: trans-Saharan trade
Answer: Exchange of goods across the largest African desert.
Question: Ghana
Answer: Between the Sahara and west African rainforests. Different location than modern Ghana. Rulers sold gold and ivory to Muslim traders in exchange for salt, copper, cloth, and tools. The king ruled a centralized government with nobles and an iron-clad army.
Question: Mali
Answer:
Question: Indian Ocean trade
Answer: Connected East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia. Zimbabwe was tied in through Swahili city states and prospered through its rich gold field and taxes on it.
Question: Zimbabwe
Answer: The name means “dwellings” in Bantu. They made their houses of stone.
Prospered on agriculture, grazing, trade, and gold.
Question: Great Zimbabwe
Answer: City, now in ruins (in the modern African country of Zimbabwe), whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450, when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state.
Question: Ethiopia
Answer: Christianity had spread, though it had to compete with Islam and its influence was weakened in Africa. Yet, this kingdom embraced Christianity.
They made 11 churches of entirely rock.
Island of Christianity on Africa. Developed independently of the Catholic or Orthodox churches.