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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.
Bantu Some of the people in Swahili Africa. They were from the Hinterlands, and they brought fishing and agriculture and dhows to Swahili Africa.
Arab/Omani The majority of people who came to Swahili Africa from different places were Arab or Omani. The Arabs brought trade.
Bantu/Arab influences Bantu: from Hinterlands, brought dhow, fishing/agriculture. Arab: trade.
Hinterland An area in Kenya that was a big part of Swahili Africa
Dhow Big boats.
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.
Kiswahili The language that Swahili people speak, it incorporates Bantu and Arabic words, with a few Portuguese.
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.
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.
Clothing The women wore the black body coverings that are called bui-buis and kafas, which are head coverings.
Architecture Thatched roofs, they originally used mangroves, but then they switched to steel.
End of Swahili independence Portugal interested in Swahili 1448...????
Vasco de Gama Spice trade, Christian influence, turk.
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.
Muscat The original capital of Oman.
Zanzibar The capital of Oman starting in 1840.
Plantation Slavery in East Africa Big slave trade, big slave plantations for cloves and sugar.
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.
Moresby Treaty In 1822 a treaty from the UK that banned all exportation of slaves to all Christian nations.
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.
Hammerton Treaty In 1845 banned all shipments of slaves outside of Sulton's east Africa.
Where did the slaves come from? The Hinterlands.
Nyamwezi Slave porters.
Treatments of Slaves Overseers were very mean, slaves worked 15 hours a day.
End of slavery in East Africa Slaves were allowed to buy their freedom at first, then there were independence movements.
British Kenya In 1877 British had Kenya.
King Philip II Had a part in Ft. Jesus.
Omani Sultons Had tons of land, power, slaves, riches, took over Ft. Jesus in 1696.
"Scramble for Africa" Lots of Europian countries colonized in Africa.
Importance of British Rail Road Goes to Hinterlands, in 1899 in Nairobi.
Nairobi Where the railroad was, capital of Kenya in 1901.
"White Highlands" Some people white, some not, in central Kenya, Brtiish gov't.
Legislative Council 1906, promotes racial superiority.
"Native Reserves" Where you go to get more slaves.
"Tribal chiefs" ????
Native Authority Ordinance ????
Native Registration Act ???

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Creator ezoffer
Created May 18, 2008
Groups DA GROUP, J's Jay Byrds (yes, I know "byrd" is spelled wrong), Moose Brothers, DA HOME BASE, DA spanish, Home Of Da Boys, Wise Ones, The DA Peeps, For DA Girls Only, DA Girls Only, DA Groupy, Durham Academy 7th Graders, DA Cavs!, DA 7th Grade Peeps, da 2013
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  1. Swahili towns/islands → The places listed in flashcard 'Swahili', most places in east Africa. - 1 miss
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  3. Omani Sultons → Had tons of land, power, slaves, riches, took over Ft. Jesus in 1696. - 1 miss
  4. "White Highlands" → Some people white, some not, in central Kenya, Brtiish gov't. - 1 miss
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