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Byzantium, Russia, Sudanic states, Swahili Coast, Tang, Song, and Ming. China, Delhi Sultanate, Mongol, Turkish, Aztec, Inca) Continuities and breaks within the period (e.g., the effects of the Mongols on international contacts and on specific societies) The Islamic world.
Kongo, Zimbabwe) with those that were (the Sudanic states and the Swahili coast). Yoruba and Benin were based on city-state organization similar to Swahili coast, Kongo and Zimbabwe were lesser imperial forms of government similar to the Sudanic states.
From the mid-1980s, however, the consensus of both local and scholarly opinion has shifted to stress their local origins, the fact that Swahili is an African language, and the ways coastal religious beliefs and cultural patterns came to embrace both local practices and foreign influences, as Swahili came to be seen as an African people who, on moving to the coast and engaging in overseas trade.
Even though most of Africa did not convert to Islam, this chapter admittedly focuses the Sudanic states and Swahili coast, two Islamic areas. Why this imbalanced focus? 70. Identify the major raw materials the rest of the world wanted from Africa by the late 15 th.
The spread of Islam in Africa linked its regions to the outside world through trade, religion, and politics. State building in Africa was influenced both by indigenous and Islamic inspiration. States like Mali and Songhay built on military power and dynastic alliances. City-states in western and eastern Africa were tied to larger trading networks.
More than 1000000 free essays. kingdom developed among the Fon peoples, the kings ruled with advice from councils but with access to firearms and a brutal political regime based on the slave trade.
Sudanic empires of Mali, Ghana, Songhay. City states of Swahili coast. Stateless society common and continued to thrive but large states developed and connected economically and politically with other parts of the world.
Art, crafts, weaving, and wood carving flourished in many regions. Benin and the Yoruba states created remarkable wood and ivory sculptures. East Africa and the Sudan. On Africa’s east coast, the Swahili trading towns continued a commerce of ivory, gold, and slaves for Middle Eastern markets. A few slaves went to European plantation colonies.
What was the impact of the Seljuk conquest of Baghdad on the Abbasid Empire? Their impact was to purge the Shi’as officials and rid the Caliphs domains of Shi’a influences Who was the Muslim leader responsible for the reconquest of most of the territories belonging to the Christians?
Many Sudanic societies were matrilineal and did not seclude women. Slavery, and the slave trade to the Islamic world, lasting over 700 years, had a major impact upon women and children. All individuals might become slaves, but the demand for concubines and eunuchs increased demand for women and children. The Swahili Coast of East Africa.
The Swahili Coast of East Africa A series of trading ports, part of the Indian Ocean network, developed along the coast and islands between the Horn of Africa and Mozambique. Town residents were influenced by Islam, but most of the general population remained tied to traditional ways.
Grasslands Kingdoms Sudanic States Ghana, Mali, Songhai; 9 Sudanic States. Islam reinforced ideas of kingship and power. Swahili Coast of East Africa. Coasts enable East Africa to be connected to. into the global community through increasing contact from 700-1500 CE between Africa and.
