MEAS 200 midterm study guide

Short answer essay questions:

- Describe religion, trade and culture in pre-Islamic Arabia.
- What is the status of women as portrayed in the Quran?
- Describe the expansion of Islam from the Arabian Peninsula during the first century after the Prophet Muhammad's death.
- Write about four features of Islamic civilization during the Abbasid Empire.
- Describe kingship, religion and trade in the empire of Mali.
- What was the role of trade and Islam in linking West Africa to the Mediterranean?
- Describe the Ottoman ruling institutions and how they supported the expansion of the Ottoman Empire. .
- Who were the Ottoman slave elite?
- What was the Millet system which prevailed during the Ottoman Empire?
- How did the trans-Atlantic slave trade disrupt the development of Africa?
- Explain the "triangular" trade, and how European merchants benefited from it.
- What was the connection between the discovery of America and the slave trade?
- Contrast the internal slave trade in west Africa before the 16th century, and the trans-Atlantic slave trade from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.
- What were some economic factors behind the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade?
- Give three examples of the African resistance of slavery: in Africa, Europe and America.

Terms

Quran
Jihad
Ulama
Shari'ah
Fatwa
jizya or jizyah
The five pillars of Islam
The Tradition of gazi
The law of differentiation
Anti- Slavery Squadron

Historical figures:

Prophet Muhammad
Ali ibn Abi Talib
Shah Isma'il
Salah al-Din (Saladin)
Mansa Musa
Olaudah Equiano

Cities:
Mecca and Medina
Damascus
Baghdad
Cairo
Timbuktu
Elmina


Ethnicity:
Identify the following ethnic designations, in light of the material we've read and discussed so far:

Arab
Berber
Malinke
Turks
The Oromo or Galla
The Funji