World History Chapter. 6 Test Study Guide

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What is the term for an independent political unit that includes a city and surrounding land?
City-state
Who were the people who migrated south and east through Africa?
Bantu people
What was the name of the city-state founded by settlers form Arabia and Persia?
Kilwa
What was one reslut of the interaction between Arabs and Africans?
Swahili
What poeple greatly influenced the culture and government of East Africa?
Arabs
What people settled between the Zambezi and LImpopo rivers and built an empire?
Shona
What was the large settlement whose name means "house of stone"?
The great Zimbabwe
What people settled along the western coast of Africa and established a great kingdom?
The kongo
What people introduced great changes to the people of Kongo?
Portugeese people
What caused instability in the kingdom of Kongo?
Slave Trade
What do we call the movement of many different tribes moving south and east through Africa beginning in 1000 b.c.
Bantu migration
Why did Kilwa become an important trade center?
It was as far south as traders from India could sail in one monsoon season
What did Arab traders bring with them when they settled in East African port towns?
Islam and language
Where did the Shona people settle and build a thrivign empire?
Southern Africa
What was the largest settlement in the Shona Empire?
Great Zimbabwe