Bantu

The kingdom was officially founded in 1100 BCE. They traded gold, ivory, tortoise shells, and slaves with the Persians and Arabs from the Middle East, which resulted in a blended culture; part Bantu and part Arab. The people of the Swahili Coast were Muslims, but also had strong beliefs in spirits and medicine men. A lot of people were middlemen, who would journey back and forth between the Swahili Coast and the Middle East for trade. Kiswahili…

Sub-Saharan Africa is the part of the African continent that is located south of the Saharan Desert. Per the New World Encyclopedia the actual line of demarcation is the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. (New World Encyclopedia). Sub Saharan African is different from the rest of Africa in many ways. These differences are mostly a result of geography and climate. “Since the end of the last ice age, the north and sub-Saharan regions of Africa have been separated by the extremely harsh climate of…

1. Introduction: “Two thousand years ago there was a major break in the economic and social world of southern Africa. Domestic animals and pottery were introduced for the first time into an environment of hunter-gatherers. There is considerable debate on the origin and spread of domestic animals on the subcontinent, but no argument that they have arrived from the north” Quoted by Cummings et al. 2014:484). According to Mountain (2003:40) the Khoekhoen have been regarded as the ethnographic…

Nationalism and Marxism are two of the most influential ideologies in the 21st century. Nationalism is the patriotic feeling and principles of that nation . Marxism is the political and economical theories of a nation based on past events and ideologies of the community. Back in the early and late 1800’s slavery was a huge issue that boomed in the north and south. These were very prominent in African American literature because it showed the difference in culture, what racial equality was back…

QUESTION 2 “We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa”-Oliver Tambo . Apartheid can be defined as the racial-social ideology developed in South Africa during the 20th century, its name means “separation” in Afrikaans, the mother tongue of the colonisers. Apartheid was practically based on racial segregation, as well as race domination or superiority. It was about political and economic discrimination, which excluded black; coloured;…

One of the biggest linguistic effects of migration occurred in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Bantu people over the course of hundreds of years migrated across the majority of Central and Southern Africa and while they were doing this they left traces of their Bantu language behind them. This made many languages in this region of Africa to stem off of the Bantu language and still today you can see the effects the Bantu language had on Sub-Saharan Africa’s…

1) The Chinese eagerness for western products and the growing and flourishing of the cities led to the development of the Silk Road. Also, the favored idea by the Europeans, of a route linking many lands together to trade, was also an event that led to the Silk Road. 2) The Mesopotamian border entrepôts and Samarkand, are examples of the impact that the Silk Road had on Asia because goods from other countries were bought and sold throughout different countries, and stops were made along the way…

In the years after the death of Christ, religious beliefs such as Bantu, Christianity, and Islamic faith became the center of the civilizations Africa. In the lower regions of Africa, the Bantu tribes based their religious beliefs and lifestyles off of the environment that surrounded them. These tribes where located in Torrid Zones that made it hard to create a settlement for them to live in, making them pastoralist. In the upper regions of Africa, particularly in the North, the Romans used…

were initially established by Arab merchants, resulting in a great amount of lasting cultural influence-- Swahili peoples today (now spread throughout eastern African countries such as Kenya and Tanzania) still speak a common language (a mixture of Bantu and Arabic roots) and are greatly influenced by their Islamic heritage and religious traditions. In contrast, Great Zimbabwe (a name meaning "city of stone"), located in southeastern Africa,…

stone-using forest farmers of the Congo basin, the independent development of iron-working in the east African great lakes region, centuries before the Common Era, and lastly, stone-using cereal farmers and pastoralists of the east African plateau. Once Bantu-speaking farmers had united these three elements and developed a combination of mixed farming and iron-working by the turn of the beginning of the Common Era, the new culture spread rapidly through the southern half of the continent. Taking…