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Swahili

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East African city-state society that dominated the coast from Mogadishu to Kilwa and was active in trade. Also a Bantu language of East Africa, or a member of a group who speaks this language

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umma

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Islamic term for the "community of the faithful"

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Allah

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God of the monotheistic religion of Islam

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Timbuktu

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Port city of Mali; located just off the flood plain on the great bend in the Niger River; population of 50,000; contained a library and university.

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Ummayad dynasty

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Arabic dynasty, with its capital at Damascus, that was marked by a tremendous period of expansion to Spain in the west and India in the east

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Muhammad

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Prophet of Islam

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Bantu

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Collective name of a large group of sub-Saharan African languages and of the peoples speaking these languages.

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jizya

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Tax in Islamic empires that was imposed on non-Muslims

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Bananas

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Arrived to Africa via Southeast Asia, cultivation increased the supply of food, enriched diets, and allowed the population to expand more rapidly than before.

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Abbasid dynasty

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Cosmopolitan Arabic dynasty that replaced the Umayyads; founded by Abu al-Abbas and reached its peak under Harun al-Rashid

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Pax Mongolica (13th-14th centuries)

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Mongols guaranteed safe passage for traders, missionaries, and travelers such as Marco Polo, trade flourished, silk, Asian artistic designs moved westward, Mongols gain incredible wealth taxing the trade, peaceful travel across Asia, cultural exchanges, exchange of ideas, medical, mathematics, finance, engineering knowledge flows between China and Middle East, printing, gunpowder transmitted from China to Europe, spread of bubonic plague.

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Mecca

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Original city of Islam, birthplace of Muhammad, location of the hajj

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Ibn Battuta

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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

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hajj

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Pilgrimage to Mecca

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Great Zimbabwe

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Large sub-Saharan African kingdom in the 15th century

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Five Pillars of Islam

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The foundations of Islam: 1. Profession of faith 2. prayer 3. fasting during Ramadan 4. almsgiving 5. pilgrimage or hajj

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Baghdad

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Located on the Silk Roads, it was the capital city of the Abbasid Caliphate.

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Mali empire

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West African kingdom founded in the 13th century by Sundiata; it reached its peak during the reign of Mansa Masu

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Islam

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Monotheistic religion announced by the prophet Muhammad; influenced by Judaism and Christianity, Muhammad was considered the final prophet because the earlier religions had not seen the entire picture

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Mansa Musa

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Greatest Mali king; brought Mali to its peak of power and wealth from 1312 the 1337; expanded borders, maintained peace and order, religious freedom and tolerance; hajj to Mecca; built Timbuktu

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Caliph

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"Deputy," Islamic leader after the death of Muhammad

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Quran

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Islamic holy book that is believed to contain the divine revelations of Allah as presented to Muhammad

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Sundiata

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Founder of the Mali empire, also the inspiration for the Sundiata, an African literary and mythological work

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Melaka (Malacca)

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Southeast Asian kingdom that was predominantly Islamic

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dar al-Islam

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The "house of Islam", a term for the Islamic world. It refers to lands under the Islamic rule as a whole; it continued to grow during the Abbasid era.

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