Do Now: How does trade and environment effect a kingdom?

  Aim and Do Now ~10min  Notes ~15min (Vocab, maps, other stuff)  Video/Animation 2min  Discussion question 5min  Groups make skits related to task ~20min  Share out skits-10min  Exit slip (together) 5min Agenda

  Griot- Professional poet who recited ancient poems  Lineage- A group of households who share a common ancestor  Matrilineal- Families with inheritance with their mother side  Nuclear family- Parents and their children  Patrilineal- Families with inherence through their father side  Slash and burn agriculture- Clearing forest, and then burning the remains to fertilize the soil Vocabulary

 Migration  Bantu-speaking peoples migrated across Africa for over thousands of years  They carried farming skills and knowledge of iron working to many regions  They adapt to local environments and absorbed ideas from people they encountered  Migrations pushed many hunting and food-gathering peoples of Africa to fringe areas

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  The Khoisan people, adapted to the Kalahari desert  Gathered roots and herbs  Hunted small game  Hunter-gathers lived in small bands of people because of scarce food  Had the ability to track animals across long distances  Can identify the food and healing properties of many plants Hunting and Gathering

  People raise herds of cattle in areas where it’s free from tsetse flies  Societies were often nomadic to protect cattle  Basic food source were fishes  Fish were traded for grain, animals skins, and other tradable goods  Mostly used technique for settled farms was Slash and burn agriculture to fertilize the soil and reduce waste  When land lost its fertility villages clear another land. Fishing, herding, and Farming

 Slash and Burn Agriculture

  Power Was usually shared among a number of people  Villages often made decisions know as consensus  Kingdom of Kongo, 1500  limited power  King was chosen by board of electors  Governed by traditional law  King collected taxes either in goods or in cowrie shells Development of government

 Kongo Kingdom

  Nuclear families would live and work together as a unit  Patrilineal families would have the wife move with husband  Matrilineal families would have the husband move with the wife  Forged strong ties between brothers and sisters  Each family belonged to a lineage.  Several lineage formed clans giving a since of community  Age grades gave responsibility and privileges to children of all ages Family Patterns

  Many African people believed that there was one single unknowable supreme being who stood above all the other gods and goddesses  This supreme being was the creator and ruler of the universe  Believed that the sprits of their ancestors could help them, warn, or punish their descendents on earth Religious beliefs

  Traditions came from ancient rock paintings of the Sahara  Created works from ivory wood and rocks  Art gave a connection between makers and users of the works  African art was mostly tied with religion  During rituals, masks were made up of cowrie shells and grass  African Muslim scholars gathered in cities in Africa  Griots preserved historical and traditional folk tales orally from generation to generation  Literature encouraged a sense of community and common values Artistic traditions

  Create a skit based on what you have learned today and share out those skits SKITS

  1)Connect, How has these traditions affected the world today?  2)Compare the skills of the Africans with another village or kingdom Exit Slip