Africa

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Africa
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West Africa

• 100 A.D. Villages in central west Africa
  develop around rivers
• Gold Salt were the two biggest commodities
• Gold was made into jewelry salt for food
• Salt blocks were used to make houses
• 800 A.D. Ghana became the most powerful kingdom
  in West Africa due to large wealth of Gold Salt

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West Africa

• 1235 Ghana is taken over by the kingdom of Mali
• 1312 Mansa Musa becomes king of Mali
• Expands borders north and west
• Controls all gold trade routes
• 1400s Europeans begin trading with West African
  countries establishing colonies

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East Africa

• 350 A.D. Axum conquers Nubia to create a
  powerful eastern kingdom
• Trade Routes developed for many products
• Ivory animal hides rhinoceros horns gold and
  spices

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South Africa

• 900-1500 The kingdom of Zimbabwe dominated the
  Southern tip of Africa
• Zimbabwe was dominated by advancements in
• harvesting crops
• raising cattle
• Mining for metals
• 1500s South Africa begins trading with Europeans
  and the kingdoms decline in power

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African Culture

• Dominated by hunting, fishing, herding cattle
  sheep, farming
• Power was divided among groups of elders in local
  villages
• These local villages would pay taxes and obey the
  laws of regional kings
• Ex Kingdom of Congo

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African Culture

• Families worked together as a unite to survive
  (nuclear family)
• Males hunted females worked in the homes
  raising children and cooking
• Many families sided with the maternal side of the
  family
• Lineage (family history) was very important
• Christianity, Judaism, Islam dominated the
  regions