13SS SS 6th Grade Ancient Africa Chapter 13 Lecture Notes

Axum - This city-state owed its power to its location on the Red Sea

Plateau - This is an area of high flat land

Griot - This is the name for the storyteller, who kept the oral history of Africa

Dhow - This was the name for the sailboat invented by Arab traders – wooden boat powered by triangular sails

Gold, Copper and Ivory - The great trading center of Zimbabwe supplied this to the East African coast.

Swahili - The language that means “people of the coast”- their culture and language exist in Africa today

Centralized with Kings - West African empires utilized these governments ruled over by these men

Mansa Musa - The King of Mali rewarded loyal citizens with gold, land and horses

Christianity - Today, the most widely practiced religion in Africa

One Supreme God - Igbo is similar to Christianity, Islam and Judaism

Bantu - These African people’s migrations helped spread culture across Africa – their migrations spread their skills, beliefs, and ideas across Africa

Portugal - During the 1440s, the European slave trade was started in Africa

Cave Paintings - The earliest form of African Art

Clan – each district in Ghana usually included a chief’s clan

Matrilineal – societies that trace their descent through their mothers

Trade network – East African kingdoms and states were important because they helped the trade network that spanned the Indian Ocean.

West African empires – governed by a king who had a strong army

Slavery in the medieval times – instead of being enslaved by other tribes from whom they could gain freedom, Africans were enslaved to Europeans and sent across the ocean where there was no escape and their culture could be lost

Homeland - Enslaved Africans used music to remind them of

Nile - Africa’s longest river

Homework

Keyword sentences

Page 478 #1 to 6, 8, 9, 11

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  1. East African kingdoms and states were important because they wer part of the trade network that spanned the Indian Ocean.
  2. West African empires were governed by a king who had strong army.
  1. The result of the Bantu migrations were they spread their skills, beliefs, and ideas across Africa.