<p>Name______Period ______</p><p>Walker AP World History, Chapter 8, Reading Study Guide Pg. 184-203</p><p>1. Why did Mansa Musa make such an impression in Cairo on his way to Mecca?</p><p>2. What is a stateless society? Pg. 185</p><p>3. When were camels introduced into the Sahara for trade? Pg. 186 ______</p><p>4. When was Ghana at the height of its power? ______</p><p>5. When was Mali at the height of its power? ______</p><p>6. Which two World Religions were successful in Africa?</p><p>7. How did these ‘less civilized’ cultures use secret societies to maintain stability within the community? Pg. 186</p><p>8. What basic language structure had spread throughout much of Sub-Saharan Africa by this time?</p><p>9. What is the best guess (and I do mean GUESS) at the population of Africa before 1500 CE?</p><p>10. Briefly describe the spread of Islam to North Africa and Europe.</p><p>11. Who were the Almohadis and how did they push Islam into Sub-Saharan Africa?</p><p>12. Which areas of Africa were influenced by early Christianity? What were these Christians called?</p><p>13. What are the three “coasts” of Sub-Saharan Africa?</p><p>14. What is the sahel?</p><p>15. How did the Kingdom of Ghana rise to power?</p><p>16. What were the Sudanic States?</p><p>17. Who was Ibn Batuta? Why do you think he is important to our understanding of Africa at this time?</p><p>(Read Document: The Great Oral Tradition & the Epic of Sundiata. Pg. 192)</p><p>18. Can oral traditions be used like other sources?</p><p>19. What aspects of the epic reveal contacts between this part of Africa and the wider world?</p><p>20. Why do we know so much about Mansa Musa?</p><p>21. Why is Timbuktu significant?</p><p>22. Briefly describe the rise of Songhay.</p><p>23. What is the Sharia?</p><p>24. Describe the trade on the East Coast of Africa. What is the Zanj?</p><p>25. In addition to the Muslim world, what two major civilizations did this trade involve?</p><p>1 26. Describe the Swahili language.</p><p>(Read Visualizing the Past: The Architecture of Faith. Pg. 195)</p><p>27. In what way does the architectural style of African mosques suggest that Islam's entry was gradual?</p><p>28. In what ways do the mosques of West Africa reflect local conditions and practices?</p><p>(Read Thinking Historically: Two Transitions in the History of World Population. Pg. 198)</p><p>29. What is Demography? Why would this discipline be such a ‘big deal’ in studying World History? Pg. 198</p><p>30. Why has the rate of population growth varied in different areas of the world? Pg. 198-199</p><p>30. What territory did Benin control? Pg. 197</p><p>31. Though they spread all over Central Africa, where did the Bantu people originate?</p><p>32. Briefly describe the kingdom of the Kongo.</p><p>33. What is Great Zimbabwe? Why did 19th Century observers and scholar think it was built by Phoenicians or Arabs? Pg. 201</p><p>34. Why do you think Stearns is willing to put clearly less advanced, sometimes pre-literate “civilizations” e.g. Meso-America (upcoming Ch 11) & Sub-Saharan Africa (Ch 8) in the textbook at this point? (Post-Classical/Pre- Modern era)</p><p>2</p>