Bellringer 3/13 From section 2, list three ways Islam impacted Africa. From section 3, what was the African Diaspora in regards to African culture?

African Society and Culture Coach Crews World History

Medieval Africa  Africa has a vast and varied landscape that greatly influenced the ways in which people live. East Africa, West Africa, and the rain forest regions all had their own ways.  Africans had to create their own governments. One unifying force was the religion of Islam as well as their traditional religions.  By the time Europeans came to Africa, people all over the continent had developed complex cultures. Life centered on farming villages. The family formed the basis for society.

Society and Culture 1. Life a. Bantu migrations - Spread their culture as they moved - People all over Africa now share common traditions b. Family - Extended families, matrilineal - Women went with husband’s family in exchange for goods - Children valued c. Education - Oral history passed down - Moral lessons about living d. Women - Mainly wives and mothers - Men controlled much of what women did

Society and Culture 2. Slavery a. Africa - Africans captured other Africans - Muslims enslaved Africans b. Europe - Portugal in the 1400’s - Began to invade tribes with guns - Late 1400’s, slaves sent to the Americas to work sugar plantations - Triangular Trade (Americas, Europe, Africa)

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3. African Art, Music, and Dance - African Diaspora – culture spread - Art: Cave paintings, wood masks - Music: used a beat (jazz, blues, rap, gospel) - Dance: allowed spirits to express themselves - Storytelling: morals

One day a chief decided to give a feast for his people. He sent his men to every village. They told the people to come to the chief’s house and said, "The Chief asks each of the men to bring one bottle of palm wine and pour it into a pot at the door." The day of the feast came. People put on their best clothes and walked to the chief’s house with their families. They stopped at the door of the chief’s house and poured their bottles into a very big pot at the door. There was a man who wanted to go to the feast very much. But he had no palm wine at home. But the man thought, “I don't want to buy wine for a feast that is free!” He thought a little and then said, "Hundreds of people will bring their wine and pour it into the pot. A bottle of water cannot be bad for so much wine." And so he went to the feast with a bottle of water. He poured his bottle into the pot as other people did. Then he sat down at the table with all the other people and waited for the glass of palm wine which he liked so much. All the guests took their glasses. But what they drank was not palm wine, but water! So our man was not the only one who thought, "A bottle of water cannot be bad for so much wine."

African Storytelling What is the problem? What is the moral of the story?