1.5-1.6 AMSCO Practice

When families governed themselves.

• kin-based networks

• Swahili

• Zanj Rebellion

• trans-Saharan trade

Bantu language with Arabic loanwords spoken in coastal regions of East Africa.

• kin-based networks

• Swahili

• Zanj Rebellion

• trans-Saharan trade

A series of revolts by slaves working on sugar plantations in Mesopotamia.

• kin-based networks

• Swahili

• Zanj Rebellion

• trans-Saharan trade

A network of trading routes across the great desert.

• kin-based networks

• Swahili

• Zanj Rebellion

• trans-Saharan trade

This connected trade to Europe, Africa, and China. It was the worlds richest maritime trading network and an area of rapid Muslim expansion.

• Indian Ocean trade

• Indian Ocean slave trade

• Great Zimbabwe

• chief

A trade of slaves across the Indian Ocean.

• Indian Ocean trade

• Indian Ocean slave trade

• Great Zimbabwe

• chief

A 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.

• Indian Ocean trade

• Indian Ocean slave trade

• Great Zimbabwe

• chief

Meaning leader.

• Indian Ocean trade

• Indian Ocean slave trade

• Great Zimbabwe

• chief

These states were loosely connected through kinship ties, though they too had no central authority. People established prospering city-states, each with a specialty. These city-states were located in present-day Nigeria.

• Hausa Kingdoms

• Ghana

• Mali

• Zimbabwe

First known kingdom in sub-Saharan West Africa between the sixth and thirteenth centuries C.E. Also the modern West African country once known as the Gold Coast. gold and salt trade.

• Hausa Kingdoms

• Ghana

• Mali

• Zimbabwe