Bridging World History Glossary Terms Thirteenth-century Muslim pilgrim who wrote about his travels between Egypt and Iran. Second Muslim government headed by the Twelfth-century Muslim geographer who caliph (religious leader) of the Muslim described the kingdom of Ghana. community; capital was Baghdad, 750 - 1258 CE. Shinto sun goddess. Name borne by five princes of the Umayyad dynasty, amirs and caliphs of Cordoba. Genoan merchant and mariner who publicized his travels to South America, 1454-1512 CE. Matrilineal clan through which the maternal life force is passed on to children in the Akan Chief god of the ancient Egyptians. (Ghanaian) belief system. Navajo word for "ancient ones": Native Muslim kingdom in northern Sumatra in the American group in Southwest prominent seventeenth century. around 1200 BCE. Persian empire of the seventh century BCE. People who live in the Andalusia region of southern Spain, from the traditional name Afrikaans-speaking descendants of Dutch settlers in South Africa. The belief that personalized, supernatural beings (or souls) inhabit ordinary objects and History from an Africa-centered perspective. govern their existence. Japanese film director. Shang dynasty capital and site of major archaeological excavations. Important trading kingdom dominant in Northeast Africa from fifth century BCE to tenth Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean who century CE. migrated from South America centuries before Columbus. Akan (Ghanaian) wooden fertility figure in a human shape. Muslim poet and theologian who became the leading mystical thinker of North Africa in the Area of Muslim rule on the Iberian peninsula, fourteenth century. 711 - 1492 CE. Kingdom of the Asante people, which reached Eleventh-century Muslim geographer who its height after 1700, was located in a described the kingdom of Ghana. forest of what is modern-day Ghana.
Bridging World History Glossary Terms Second Muslim government headed by the caliph (religious leader) of the Muslim community; capital was Baghdad, 750 - 1258 CE. Name borne by five princes of the Umayyad dynasty, amirs and caliphs of Cordoba. Matrilineal clan through which the maternal life force is passed on to children in the Akan (Ghanaian) belief system. Muslim kingdom in northern Sumatra in the seventeenth century. Persian empire of the seventh century BCE. Afrikaans-speaking descendants of Dutch settlers in South Africa. History from an Africa-centered perspective. Japanese film director. Important trading kingdom dominant in Northeast Africa from fifth century BCE to tenth century CE. Akan (Ghanaian) wooden fertility figure in a human shape. Area of Muslim rule on the Iberian peninsula, 711 - 1492 CE. Eleventh-century Muslim geographer who described the kingdom of Ghana. Thirteenth-century Muslim pilgrim who wrote about his travels between Egypt and Iran. Twelfth-century Muslim geographer who described the kingdom of Ghana. Shinto sun goddess. Genoan merchant and mariner who publicized his travels to South America, 1454-1512 CE. Chief god of the ancient Egyptians. Navajo word for "ancient ones": Native American group in Southwest prominent around 1200 BCE. People who live in the Andalusia region of southern Spain, from the traditional name The belief that personalized, supernatural beings (or souls) inhabit ordinary objects and govern their existence. Shang dynasty capital and site of major archaeological excavations. Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean who migrated from South America centuries before Columbus. Muslim poet and theologian who became the leading mystical thinker of North Africa in the fourteenth century. Kingdom of the Asante people, which reached its height after 1700, was located in a forest of what is modern-day Ghana.