Traditions and Encounters, 4th Edition (Bentley)

Chapter 19: STATES AND SOCIETIES OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Study Questions

1
What was the function of the griot in sub-Saharan African culture?
2
Why were bananas and camels so significant in early African history? What do they represent? How did they change the way people lived?
3
How are kin-based societies structured? How are they organized politically?
4
Compare and contrast the Kingdom of Kongo with the Kingdom of Ghana.
5
Where and how did Islam spread to sub-Saharan Africa? How was it different from north African and southwest Asian Islam? Why?
6
What was the role of the Mali empire in the Eurasian trade network? How did Mansa Musa influence its development?
7
In what ways was Kilwa a good example of a Swahili city-state?
8
What was the important of gender and age grades in sub-Saharan African societies?
9
Discuss the history of slavery in Africa. How did the developments in the slave trade from 1000 to 1500 set the stage for the Atlantic slave trade to come?
10
How did Christianity and Islam supplement native African religions in this period?
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