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Ap World History - Summerville High School

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show the term used to denote the kings of ancient Egypt; the term, “great house” refers to the palace of the pharaohs.  
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show monumental architecture typical of Old Kingdom Egypt; used as burial sites for pharaohs.  
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show African state that developed along the upper reaches of the Nile circa 1000 B.C.E.; conquered Egypt and ruled it for several centuries.  
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show founded by the Phoenicians in Tunisia; became a major empire in the western Mediterranean; fought the Punic wars with Rome for Mediterranean dominance; defeated and destroyed by the Romans.  
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Hannibal   show
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show a state in the Ethiopian highlands; received influences from the Arabian peninsula; converted to Christianity.  
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show kingdom located in Ethiopian highlands; replaced Meroë in first century C.E.; received strong influence from Arabian peninsula; eventually converted to Christianity.  
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Sahara   show
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Coptic   show
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show Christian sects of Syria and Egypt; gave their support to the Arabic Muslims.  
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show societies of varying sizes organized through kinship and lacking the concentration of power found in centralized states.  
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show Roman name for present-day Tunisia.  
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show Arabic term for northwestern Africa.  
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show a later puritanical Islamic reform movement among the Berbers of northwest Africa; also built an empire reaching from the African savanna into Spain.  
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juula   show
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Sundiata   show
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griots   show
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show Arab traveler throughout the Muslim world.  
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Timbuktu   show
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Songhay   show
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show peoples of northern Nigeria, formed states following the demise of Songhay Empire that combined Muslim and pagan traditions.  
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show extended the boundaries of Songhay in the mid-16th century.  
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show Islamic law, defined among other things the patrilineal nature of Islamic inheritance.  
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show Arabic term for the east African coast.  
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Benin   show
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demography   show
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demographic transition   show
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Kongo   show
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show with massive stone buildings and walls, incorporates the greatest early buildings in sub-Saharan Africa.  
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show commander of Mamluk forces at Ain Jalut in 1260; originally enslaved by Mongols and sold to Egyptians.  
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Cape Colony   show
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show Dutch and other European settlers in Cape Colony before 19th-century British occupation; later called Afrikaners.  
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show southern tip of Africa; first circumnavigated in 1488 by Portuguese in search of direct route to India.  
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Nzinga Mvemba   show
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show important ruler who began centralization and expansion of Asante.  
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Asantehene   show
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show Nilotic people who migrated from the Upper Nile regions to established dynasties in the lakes region of central Africa  
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Usuman Dan Fodio   show
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Shaka   show
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show name given to slaves born in Africa; distinguished from American-born descendants, the creoles  
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Surinam Maroons   show
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show Pastoral people of western Sudan; adopted purifying Sufi variant of Islam; under Usuman Dan Fodio in 1804; launched revolt against Hausa Kingdoms; established state centered on Sokoto.  
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Creole slaves   show
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William Wilberforce   show
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show trading stations with resident merchants established by the Portuguese and other Europeans  
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show a unit in the complex exchange system of the West African trade; based on the value of an adult male slave  
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Royal African Company   show
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Triangular trade   show
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Great Trek   show
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Mfecane   show
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show Slave voyage from Africa to the Americas (16th- 18th centuries); generally a traumatic experience for black slaves, although it failed to strip Africans of their culture.  
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show African religious ideas and practices in the English and French Caribbean islands.  
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Candomble   show
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show African religious ideas and practices among descendants of African slaves in Haiti  
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show Most important of early Portuguese trading facorties in forest zone of Africa  
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Luanda   show
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show Established in Gold Coast among Akan people settled around Kumasi  
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show Kingdom developed among Fon or Aja peoples in 17th century; center at Abomey 70 miles from coast; under King Agaja expanded to control coastline and port of Whydah by 1727; accepted western firearms and goods in return for African slaves.  
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Swazi   show
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Lesotho   show
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Palmares   show
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Suriname   show
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show Zulu defeat of a British army; one of the few indigenous victories over 19th-century European armies.  
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show Western European possessions in Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific where small numbers of Europeans ruled large indigenous populations.  
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settlement colonies   show
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White Dominions   show
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show belief in the inherent superiority of whites over the rest of humanity; peaked in the period before World War I.  
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show British colony in southern Africa; developed after Boer trek north from Cape Colony; major commercial outpost at Durban.  
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show independent states—the Orange Free State and Transvaal—established during the 1850s in the South African interior by Afrikaners.  
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Cecil Rhodes   show
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show fought between the British and Afrikaners; British victory and post-war policies left Africans under Afrikaner control.  
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Murad   show
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show controlled Egypt following the French withdrawal; began a modernization process based on Western models, but failed to greatly change Egypt; died in 1848.  
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khedives   show
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show built to link the Mediterranean and Red seas; opened in 1869; British later occupied Egypt to safeguard their financial and strategic interests.  
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Al-Afghani and Muhammad Abduh   show
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show student of Muhammad Abduh; led a revolt in 1882 against the Egyptian government; defeated when the khedive called in British aid.  
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show river town that was administrative center of Egyptian authority in Sudan.  
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Muhammad Ahmad   show
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show in Sufi belief system, a promised deliverer; also name given to Muhammad Achmad, the leader of a Sudanic Sufi brotherhood; began a holy war against the Egyptians and British and founded a state in the Sudan.  
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show successor of the Mahdi; defeated and killed by British General Kitchener in 189  
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show Egyptian nationalist party founded after World War I; led by Sa’d Zaghlul; participated in the negotiations that led to limited Egyptian independence in 1922.  
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Sa’d Zaghlul   show
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W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey   show
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pan-African   show
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show literary movement among African Americans and Africans; sought to combat unfavorable stereotypes of African culture and to celebrate African achievements; influenced early African nationalist movements.  
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show African and African American négritude movement writers.  
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Lord Cromer   show
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show prosperous business and professional urban Egyptian families; generally favored independence.  
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Dinshawi incident   show
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Convention Peoples Party (CCP)   show
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Jomo Kenyatta   show
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Kenya African Union (KAU)   show
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Land Freedom Army   show
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show Algerian nationalist movement that launched a guerrilla war during the 1950s; gained independence for Algeria in 1962.  
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show Algerian settler group opposed to independence from France; gained strength in France.  
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Afrikaner National Party   show
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show policy of strict racial segregation imposed in South Africa to permit the continued dominance of whites politically and economically.  
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Gamal Abdul Nasser   show
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Free Officers movement   show
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show Egyptian religious and nationalist movement founded by Hasan al-Banna in 1928; became an example for later fundamentalist movements in the Islamic world.  
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Anwar Sadat   show
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Hosni Mubarak   show
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show South African political organization founded to defend African interests; became the ruling political party after the 1994 elections.  
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Walter Sisulu and Steve Biko   show
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show ANC leader imprisoned by Afrikaner regime; released in 1990 and elected president of South Africa in 1994.  
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F. W. de Klerk   show
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globalization   show
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show business organizations with connections across political borders.  
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