Transcript Golden Age Of Africa - ESM School District

Golden
Age Of
Africa
TRussell
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Russell’s Rule to Early African
Civilizations
► Every
question on early African civilizations
will come down to
 Tran-Sahara Trade
 Mansa Musa
►Spreading
of Islam
 Gold-Salt Trade
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Background
Information
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-Climate
- Semi Tropical
- Rainforests
- Savanna
- Desert
Brief History
 Migrations
 Nomads
► Eventually created
settlements
Religion
 Animism
History passed on through
Griots (storytellers)
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What is a Golden Age?
► Golden
Age of Africa
► What is a Golden Age?
► 3 major Civilizations
800-1400sall located in West Africa
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1) Ghana
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2) Mali
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3) Songhai
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► Nok
Tribe (Kush or
Nubia)- First to
smelt iron in 500
AD (page 218).
Iron
 Weapons
 Farming
 Trade
►Ivory
 This was also
another big trading
item in Africa
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Three Major Kingdoms: Ghana, Mali, and Songhai
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Ghana
Ghana- Land of Gold 800 AD- West Africa
► King: semi divine; dispersed justice and leader of
army
► Women- high status. Held important government jobs
► Religion: animism Muslim through cultural diffusion
 Tran- Sahara Trade
 Gold –Salt Trades
 Iron products
► Conquered by Mali
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Gold-Salt Trade
► Early
traders traded equal amount of Gold
for Salt
 Result:
► Europeans
get Africans gold
► Interest in Africa increases
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Why would African’s want salt?
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Trans-Sahara Trade
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Mali
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Mansa Musa
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► Mali 1250-1400
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Mansa Musa
(handout)- famous leader,
expanded borders, converted to Islam,
► Made epic Hajj
► - Created Mosques
► increased Trading routes
 Trans- Sahara Trade
 Gold –Salt Trades
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Timbuktu- one of the 1st major
African cities
► City
became a center of learning, education
and culture
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►Timbuktu
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(famous city of trade and education)
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Ibn Battuta
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►Collapsed
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internally (civil war) , conquered by Songhai
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Songhai
► Songhai
► Trading
continued to increase
► City of Gao
► Gold Trade
Broke land into governors
► - Created Muslim dynasty
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Great Zimbabwe
► Gold
and ivory
► Tall stone walls
► Abandoned for no apparent
reason
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Slave Trade
What affects do
you think it had
on a population?
Triangular trade
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Middle Passage
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Bantu Migration
► Bantu
Migrates- People of Africa with
common language Bantu migrate East
► Became Swahili language which s common
in most of East Africa
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Today, close to 100 million people across the
southern half of Africa speak related languages,
collectively known as Bantu languages. Linguistic
evidence shows that the root Bantu language
emerged in what is now Nigeria and Cameroon
by 2000 BC. By 1000 BC, in a series of
migrations, Bantu speakers had spread south to
the savanna lands of Angola and east to the Lake
Victoria region. Over the next 1500 years they
scattered throughout central and southern
Africa, interacting with and absorbing indigenous
populations as they spread.
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Tribalism
►A
result of European’s taking over Africa
during Age of Imperialism
► People more loyal to individual tribe than
country
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Important things to Remember:
► Use and creation of Iron
► Mansa Musa
 Conversion of People to Islam
 hajj
► Bantu
Migration
► Timbuktu- center of learning
► Climates of Africa
► Gold-Salt Trade
► Triangular trade
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