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AFRICA CH 8 - sort of… AFRICA BEFORE ISLAM

African geographic diversity

Bantu migrations

Carthage (Phoenician) North Africa Berbers - nomads Carthage (Phoenician)

Northeast Africa Nubia (Kush, Axum)

Ethiopia only Christian location in Africa prior to imperialism in 1800’s 1st century AD converts to Christianity, many Jewish influences (older than parts of Europe) Numbers 12:1, wife of Moses, “Cushite woman” Jeremiah 12:23 “Can the Kushite change his skin”? Genesis 10:18 Cush - grandson of Noah, son of Ham, father of Nimrod

Sahel - grasslands southwest of Sahara GHANA gold and salt trade

Saharan trading empire

Mali - Muslim, Sudanic state Malinke peoples between Senegal and Niger Sundiata - “Lion Prince” griots - oral historians Ibn Battuta - world traveler Sangore mosque, library in Timbuktu

East Africa small city-states without empire (stateless) prior to Islam

West Africa YORUBA BENIN non-Bantu, pre-Muslim city states 14th century kingdom, inherited W. Africa arts

Central Africa - also not Islamic KONGO GREAT ZIMBABWE

“textbook” notes “stateless societies” - often lack written record common elements - Bantu language, animist religion, agricultural society spread of Islam - Sudanic Kingdoms (Mali, Songhey) and East Africa (swahili city-states) Kongo, Great Zimbabwe, Ghana, Benin = all strong, pre-Islamic African kingdoms

SPREAD OF ISLAM 3 causes = four places

Ibn Battuta (doc book) Marco Polo 1270-1300 Ibn Battuta 1330-1350 Zheng He 1405-1433

Investigate the spread of Islam… Sufi mystics Violence / warfare Trade SOUTH ASIA (India) - Ch 7 SOUTHEAST ASIA - Ch 7 WEST AFRICA - Ch 8 (Sudanic - Mali, Songhay) EAST AFRICA - Ch 8 (Swahili coast)

Sufism