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"Native Reserves": Where you go to get more slaves.
"Scramble for Africa": Lots of Europian countries colonized in Africa.
"Tribal chiefs": ????
"White Highlands": Some people white, some not, in central Kenya, Brtiish gov't.
African side of Swahili culture: Religion, medicine men, spirits were a big deal and they came from indiginous Africans. Many buildings also had thatched roofs.
Arab side of Swahili culture: In 100c.e. there was a mass migration of Arabs to Swahili Africa and there were many new influences.
Arab/Omani: The majority of people who came to Swahili Africa from different places were Arab or Omani. The Arabs brought trade.
Architecture: Thatched roofs, they originally used mangroves, but then they switched to steel.
Bantu: Some of the people in Swahili Africa. They were from the Hinterlands, and they brought fishing and agriculture and dhows to Swahili Africa.
Bantu/Arab influences: Bantu: from Hinterlands, brought dhow, fishing/agriculture. Arab: trade.
British Kenya: In 1877 British had Kenya.
Clothing: The women wore the black body coverings that are called bui-buis and kafas, which are head coverings.
Dhow: Big boats.
End of slavery in East Africa: Slaves were allowed to buy their freedom at first, then there were independence movements.
End of Swahili independence: Portugal interested in Swahili 1448...????
Fort Jesus: Early 1600's barracks. Was a Christian and Portugese thing, but then Omani sultans take it over in 1696. 1700's Portugese tried to recapture Ft. Jesus, but failed.
Hammerton Treaty: In 1845 banned all shipments of slaves outside of Sulton's east Africa.
Hinterland: An area in Kenya that was a big part of Swahili Africa
Importance of British Rail Road: Goes to Hinterlands, in 1899 in Nairobi.
Importance of trade: They had fishermen, and merchants, and they had mercantalism with Persia (Iran). The Swahili crops were rice, citrus fruits, grains, cloves, and they traded with Persia and Oman. They traded ivory, mangroves (for poles), coconut oil, rhino horns, gold, slaves and tortoise shells. Swahili recieved whale oil, carpets, incense, pots, glassware, cloth, perfume, ink, paper, beads, and iron.
King Philip II: Had a part in Ft. Jesus.
Kiswahili: The language that Swahili people speak, it incorporates Bantu and Arabic words, with a few Portuguese.
Legislative Council: 1906, promotes racial superiority.
Middlemen: The Swahili consider themselves middlemen. They are in the middle of the land and sea, old culture and new influences, and many other things.
Moresby Treaty: In 1822 a treaty from the UK that banned all exportation of slaves to all Christian nations.
Muscat: The original capital of Oman.
Nairobi: Where the railroad was, capital of Kenya in 1901.
Native Authority Ordinance: ????
Native Registration Act: ???
Nyamwezi: Slave porters.
Omani Sultons: Had tons of land, power, slaves, riches, took over Ft. Jesus in 1696.
Plantation Slavery in East Africa: Big slave trade, big slave plantations for cloves and sugar.
Sayyid Said: A Sulton of Zanzibar. Had a coastal island called it not Christian had a big slave plantation with sugar and cloves and coconuts.
Shirazi (Mbwere): Middle eastern inforcers. Speak Kiswahili, upper-class, rulers of land and people, government, slaves, they pride themselves on having no African blood and never intermarrying even though it probably isn't true.
Swahili: An area on east Africa containing Mogadishu (Somalia), Lamu, Malindi, Pale, Mombasa (Kenya), Remba, Zanzibar, Kilwa, Mafia (Tanzania), and Sofala (Mozambiquu). They speak Kiswahili there.
Swahili towns/islands: The places listed in flashcard 'Swahili', most places in east Africa.
Treatments of Slaves: Overseers were very mean, slaves worked 15 hours a day.
Vasco de Gama: Spice trade, Christian influence, turk.
Where did the slaves come from?: The Hinterlands.
Zanzibar: The capital of Oman starting in 1840.