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AFRICA
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Africa Today
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How Big is Africa?
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I. Early Africa• A. Earliest Civilization
1. 7 million years ago, 1st people2. Originated in southeast Africa (Hadar, Ethiopia, Lake Turkana, Kenya &
Laetoli, Tanzania)3. Moved north, northeast, northwest “Out of Africa”
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I. Early Africa
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I. Early Africa
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I. Early Africa4. Discovered/created fire5. Hunters & Gatherers6. By 16,000 BCE, farming began with
okra, black eye peas, gourds, watermelons, yams, peanuts, kola nuts, cotton, beans, wheat, barley, domestication of cattle, sheep, etc
7. Metalwork which included, iron, copper, lead & bronze production
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II. African Empires
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II. African Empires• A. Prior to the colonialism, thousands of
empires/kingdoms existed throughout Africa
• B. Ancient Empires include: – 1. Ancient Egypt (3100 BCE-870 CE)– 2. Ancient Kush/Nubia (Sudan) (760 BCE-656 BCE)– 3. Ancient Carthage (Tunisia) (575 BCE-146 BCE)– 4. Ancient Axum (Ethiopia) (100-940 CE)
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II. African Empires
Ancient Kush/Nubia (Sudan) Ancient Egypt
Ancient Carthage (Tunisia) Ancient Axum (Ethiopia)
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III. West African Empires• A. “Sudanic Empires”, “Bilad al Sudan (“land of
the Blacks”) included:1. Ghana (800-1200 CE)2. Mali (1100-1700 CE)3. Songhai (1335-1591 CE) 4. Kanem-Bornu (1100-1846 CE)
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III. West African EmpiresPresent day Mauritania & Mali
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III. West African Empires
Timbuktu, Mali
Songhai Empire included present day Mali, Niger & Burkina Faso
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III. West African Empires
Sunni Ali, Songhai Emperor
Idris Alooma, Kanem-Bornu Emperor
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III. West African Empires
Present day Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon & Nigeria
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III. West African Empires• B. Islam– 1. Sudanic Empires were all Muslim (followers of
Islam)– 2. Islam spread through trade routes that
connected West, North & East Africa with the Arabian peninsula, India & China
– 3. It brought literacy, political stability, economic prosperity
– 4. Africans combined existing traditions with Islamic doctrine, culture & even fashion
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III. West African Empires
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III. West African Empires• C. West African Empires included:
1. Benin (1447-1897 CE) Benin & Nigeria2. Yoruba/Oyo (1600-1800 CE) Nigeria
D. Practiced Indigenous African ReligionE. Organized in city-states, which were ruled
by a chief & the chiefs were ruled by a KINGF. Traded gold, pepper, ivory, slaves, blue fabric, leopard skins, glass beads, etc
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III. West African Empires
Oba of Benin
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III. West African Empires
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IV. Southwestern African Empires
• A. Southwestern Empires included:1. Luba (1000-1600) Democratic Republic of Congo2. Kongo (1200-1600) Kongo, Angola & Gabon
B. Formed along the Congo RiverC. Luba was:
1. feudal system2. agrarian based3. metal work4. traded palm oil, metal work , salt, beads, etc
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IV. Southwestern African Empires
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IV. Southwestern African Empires
• D Kongo:– 1. Absolute monarch– 2. Traded gold, pepper, ivory, slaves, blue, fabric,
leopard skins, glass beads, etc– 3. King Alfonso converted to Christianity, so did
many of his subjects– 4. King Alfonso tried to curtail slavery, famously
wrote a letter
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IV. Southwestern African Empires
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V. South African Empires
• A. Zimbabwe1. located between Limpopo & Zambezi Rivers2. founded 1150 CE3. Indigenous African w/o Islamic influences4. Organized into city-states & ruled by a king5. traded gold, copper, cloth & glass6. zimbabwe means house of stone
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V. South African Empires
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V. South African Empires
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V. South African Empires
• B. Zulu Kingdom 1816-18971. located along the southeast African coast2. Indigenous African language & religion3. founded by Shaka 4. extended slave trade in southeastern Africa
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V. South African Empires
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VI. East African Empires• A. East African Coastal areas
1. were organized into city-states, major city-states included:
a. Kilwa Island off the coast of Tanzania)
b. Mombasa (Kenya) c. Zanzibar (Tanzania) d. Mogadishu (Somalia)
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VI. East African Empires
Kilwa 900-1700s
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VI. East African Empires2. Traded ivory, incense, gold, iron,
slaves, spices, perfumes with Africans, Arabs, East Indians, Malaysians & Persians
3. Islam dominant religion4. The Swahili language, a combination
of Arabic & Bantu (indigenous sub-Saharan African languages) developed
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VI. East African Empires
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VI. East African Empires• B. Ethiopia
1. Ethiopian people are combination of Indigenous African & Arab people2. Christianity is the dominant religion
a. 330CE King Ezana converted to Christianity
b. 900s CE Ethiopian Orthodox Church formed 3. Isolated from African neighbors4. Solomonic Dynasty ruled from 950 -1974
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VI. East African Empires
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VII. North African Empires
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African Independence