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West Africa

Chapter 8

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World History
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Africa
Conversion to Islam
Dyula people
Timbuktu
Swahili people
West Africa
Spread of Islam
Mali Empire
Swahili language
Musa I of Mali
Songhai Empire
religion

Chapter 8 African Civilizations and the Spread of Islam I. Introduction A. Mansa Musa ? crossed Sahara on hajj 1. wealth symbolized potential of Africa B. Sub-sahara never totally isolated 1. But?for periods contact was difficult and intermittent C. Changes came from 1. Arrival of Muhammad followers a. Commercial and military attributes b. changed by Islam, but retained individuality c. African culture not united d. provided major external contact between sub-Saharan Africa and world D. State building 1. Mali, Songhay ? created more from military power than ethnic/cultural unity 2. Merchant city states on west/East coast 3. Portugese in 15th century brought Africans into world economy more 4. Bantu migration continued

post classical africa

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Racism
trade routes
Musa I of Mali
Year of birth uncertain
Mali Empire
slavery
Zanj
West Africa
Swahili people
Sofala
Atlantic slave trade

Post classical states and societies of Sub-Sahara Africa Political: Sundiata-founder of Mali empire in west Africa in the 13th century, oral tradition tells of him by professional singers and storytellers called griots. His father ruled a small west African kingdom, but sundiata had a defective leg and was crippled. When enemies killed his family, he learned the bow in the woods. Sundiata was sent to another kingdom where he assembled a cavalry and posed as a warrior. 1235 he returns and claims throne, and builds a capital at Niani, soon becoming a commercial center Between 1000-1500 CE people of sub Saharan Africa expand and do interregional trade. Also had indian ocean trade By 1000 ce bantus are in most Africa south of equator, while kushite, Sudanese, and others have communities

Chapter 8 Voc.

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Africa
Conversion to Islam
Dyula people
Timbuktu
Swahili people
West Africa
Spread of Islam
Mali Empire
Swahili language
Musa I of Mali
Songhai Empire
religion

Chapter 8 African Civilizations and the Spread of Islam I. Introduction A. Mansa Musa ? crossed Sahara on hajj 1. wealth symbolized potential of Africa B. Sub-sahara never totally isolated 1. But?for periods contact was difficult and intermittent C. Changes came from 1. Arrival of Muhammad followers a. Commercial and military attributes b. changed by Islam, but retained individuality c. African culture not united d. provided major external contact between sub-Saharan Africa and world D. State building 1. Mali, Songhay ? created more from military power than ethnic/cultural unity 2. Merchant city states on west/East coast 3. Portugese in 15th century brought Africans into world economy more 4. Bantu migration continued

Chapter 18 Vocabulary

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World History
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Africa
African slave trade
Racism
trade routes
States of pre-colonial Africa
Colonization of the Americas
Kanem-Bornu Empire
West Africa
slavery
Trans-Saharan trade
Sokoto Caliphate
Songhai Empire
royal africa company. atlaic system
chartered company
dutch east inidia company
plantocracy
drivr seasoninf
manumission
hausa
bornu
songhai
middle passage
mercantilsm
maroon

Chapter 18 Vocabulary Royal African Company (p. 458) A trading company chartered by the English government in1672 to conduct it merchants? trade on the Atlantic coast of Africa Atlantic system (p. 458) the network of trading links after 1500 that moved goods, wealth, people, and cultures around the Atlantic Ocean basin Chartered Company (p. 460) Groups of private investors who paid and annual fee to France and England in exchange for a monopoly over trade to the West Indies colonies Dutch West India Company (1621 ? 1794) (p. 460) Trading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct its merchant?s trade in the Americas and Africa. plantocracy

Unit 3

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Americas
Humanities
Colonialism
Racism
African slave trade
Early Modern period
Slave Trade
Atlantic slave trade
slavery
British Empire
spanish empire
West Africa

1450-1750 Early Modern Period Major Developments I. Questions of Periodization A. Major points 1. Shift in power to the West a. Rise of the West with fall of China and India creates imbalance in power that favors Europeans for next 200 years 2. World becomes smaller ? almost all civilizations touched by trade 3. New Empires ? Spain, Portugal, England, France, Netherlands, Ottoman, Russian, Mughal, Ming 4. Age of Gunpowder B. Changes at end of Postclassical Era 1. Independent societies (Aztecs, Incas) falling apart 2. Arab power declining 3. New invasions ? Mongols 4. Ottoman Empire gains power a. Europeans threatened by new force to East 5. Chinese flirt with trade, but Ming bureaucrats pull back 6. Europe enters age of exploration

what is culture

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Africa
Geography
Economic Community of West African States
Member states of the African Union
Member states of the United Nations
Republics
political geography
Akan
Akan people
Cultural region
Ghana
West Africa
Environment
culture

what is culture?? culture is what we care about and what we take care of. Also it is the people way of life, their behaviors, and their shared understanding about themselves and the world. what is region? a region is an area with common characteristics. there are three different kind of region the first one is: formal region: has a common human characteristic such as language, religion, or level of economic developement, or climate, vegetation. functional region: are held together by a common set of linkage or spatial interactions. venecular or perceptual region: it?s base on people? s feeling or beleifs about areas and are subjective rather than objective in nature. this picture is a perceptual region showing the different regions of the united states.
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