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12 Cards in this Set
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Connection between food and population growth
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food supply increases with bananas, causing large population growth.
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African political organization:
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Kin-based Chiefdoms Empire/Kingdoms City-States |
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Kin based
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Governed through family, no elaborate hierarchies, male head of families constitute village’s ruling.
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Chiefdoms
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Population pressures increase disputes, overrule kin based groups, small kingdoms.
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Importance of slavery in Africa
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most slaves captives of war (debtors, suspected witches, criminals)
Used in agricultural labor, slave possession a status symbol. Slave trading increased trade, creates internal African slave trade. |
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Native African religion
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Creator God, lesser gods and spirits, ancestor worship, diviners (religious specialists, spells, rituals, morality). Christianity in North Africa.
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Kingdom of Ghana
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Gold, ivory, slave trade. Military and cultural center in capital Koumbi-Saleh
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Trans Saharan Trade
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Camels, Arabs establish trading communities.
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Impact of Christianity
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Merchants then kings converted, Bible translated into Ethiopian, massive churches carved out of rock.
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And Islam?
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Kings of Ghana convert, positive impact on trade and relations with North Africa, synthesize Islam with local traditions, expand to north, becoming vulnerable to attacks by nomads.
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Kingdom of Mali
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Sundiata (lion prince), Mali Empire and trade took greater advantage of trans-Saharan trade, nominally Muslim, but did not force conversions. Mansa Musa (grandson of Sudiata), fervent Muslim, performed hajj, constructed mosques, supported Muslim scholars, empire declined after his rule.
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Great Zimbabwe
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Dwelling of the chief, stone complex called “great Zimbabwe”, population of 18,000, trade between internal and coastal regions.
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