Exam 17: Africa from Axum, to 1400

____________________ was the most valued trading commodity of West Africa.

The kingdom of Mali is most noted for

The most important commodity in the diet of most West Africans was ____________________.

By the 13?? century,the city-states along Africa's east coast had become

What factors contributed to the "cosmopolitan" nature of the Swahili city-states?

Axum was located in the ____________________ Highlands.

One could safely assume that Ghanian merchants who willingly converted to Islam became

The ancient civilized center of Southern Africa,whose ruins were only discovered in 1871,is ____________________.

After Mansa Musa's death,the Muslim faith

The Swahili cities were invigorated by an influx of ____________________ traders in the seventh and eighth centuries C.E.

One of the most significant cultural aspects accepted in early Africa but ended by the coming of Islam was

Elaborate on the social organization of early African civilizations.

Which of the following was NOT a vital commodity in the Saharan trade?

The Swahili were ____ traders.

Which of these has been most famous in African arts?

The kingdom that was destroyed in the 11?? and 12?? centuries in part because of a Muslim jihad was

Elaborate on the forest and woodland cultures.

The artwork from the Swahili involved the use of

Muslim traders seemed "shocked" at the amount of freedom women had,Europeans found which of the following most disturbing?

Europeans' initial thoughts on the African slave trade seem to have been that it was