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Religion, Government, Culture and Life

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Islam
religious faith of Muslims, founded by prophet Muhammad, taught by Koran
Muslim
of or pertaining to the religion, law, or civilization of Islam
Christian
Christian religion. Axum became the first major empire to convert to it
polytheism
doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods.
Astarte
Semitic deity, goddess of fertility worshiped by Phoenicians and Canaanites
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Ethiopian Church
The Monophysitic church founded by Frumentius in the 4th century AD
ancestor worship
veneration of ancestors
mosque
Muslim temple or place of public worship
monarchy
supreme power or sovereignty held by a single person
centralization
fact of being centralized; African Empires had centralized governments
chiefdom
territory or people over which a chief rules
vassal state
state granted use of land, in return for rendering homage; feudal tenant
mazalim
government officials of the Ghana Empire
empire
group of nations or peoples ruled over by an emperor, empress
Bilal
man chosen by Muhammad as muezzin, to whom emperors of Mali trace linage

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