Standards

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Standards

• SSWH6 The student will describe the diverse
  characteristics of early African societies before
  1800 CE.
• a. Identify the Bantu migration patterns and
  contribution to settled agriculture.
• e. Analyze the role of geography and the
  distribution of resources played in the
  development of trans-Saharan trading networks.

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History of People in Africa

• A Very Short Introduction

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Western Desert of Egypt

• 8000 BC
• Domesticated cattle
• 7000BC
• Domestication of wheat
• storage of grains
• 6000 BC
• Storage pits
• 5000 BC
• Domestication of sheep and goats
• Food storage social hierarchy

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Migration

• Why migrate?
• Overpopulation
• Ecological necessity
• Violence
• Frequency
• Intermittent and incremental
• Absorbs local populations
• Spreads
• Cultures
• Languages
• Religions
• technologies

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Causes of MigrationPush Factors

• Environmental
• Climate changes
• exhausted resources
• Natural Disasters
• earthquakes volcanoes drought famine
• Economic
• Unemployment
• slavery
• Lack of available land
• War

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Causes of MigrationPull Factors

• Environmental
• More space
• Resources
• climate
• Economic
• Land Ownership
• Job opportunities
• Politics
• Religion

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Bantu Migrations

• From the savanna
• Nomadic herders
• slash-and-burn farming
• SB soil depletion
• Need knew land every few years

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Bantu Migrations

• Bantu means the people
• Started migrating south east around 3,000 B.C.
• Shared skills
• learned new customs
• adapted to environment

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Effects of Bantu Migrations

• drove out some inhabitants, intermixed with
  others
• produced a great variety of cultures
• Language helped unify the continent
• Swahili most common language today

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Effects of Bantu Migrations

• Technology
• ironworking
• bronze, copper iron tools/weapons
• Superior weapons
• Excellent tools
• social political organization

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Innovations Technologies

• New crops
• Ie Banana, via Madagascar, native to south Asia
• ? More efficient food production
• More better nourished people
• Agriculture takes spacewith Population increase,
  need to spread out on more land.

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Summary

• 4000 BCE to 400 CE in Africa Eurasia, earlier
  in Oceania.
• Migration ? spread mingling of cultures
• Technologies
• Religions
• Governments
• People!
• Why migrate?
• How do we know?
• Languages!
• DNA
• Material Culture (artifacts)
• Effect on World History?
• Photo Division of India Pakistan ? sudden
  mass migration largest in modern history.

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Standards

• SSWH6 The student will describe the diverse
  characteristics of early African societies before
  1800 CE.
• a. Identify the Bantu migration patterns and
  contribution to settled agriculture.
• e. Analyze the role of geography and the
  distribution of resources played in the
  development of trans-Saharan trading networks.
• List 5 facts which will help you remember this
  lesson