Ap world history traditions and encounters chapter 18 – Flashcards

Moroccan Muslim scholar, the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan.

groups Early agricultural and technological development (about 8000 BCE to 3500 BCE) - Small groups of settlers grew into kinship-based villages that practiced both crop cultivation and domestication of animals. Tools and inventions helped villages to stabilize and eventually grow.

Bantu institution in which individuals of roughly the same age carried out communal tasks appropriate for that age

A single dominate God from the early days of sudanic agriculture

East African city-state society that dominated the coast from Mogadishu to kilwa and was active in trade

One of the busiest city-states on the East African coast. Had many stone buildings and mosques.

Former colony of southern Rhodesia that gained independence

African kingdom centered in Ethiopia that became an early and lasting center of Coptic christianity

Zane slaves labored under extremely difficult conditions in southern mesopotamia where they worked on plantations