Bantu Migrations and the Empires of Africa The Earth and Its Peoples p. 198-204 p. 353-367.

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Bantu Migrations and the Empires of Africa The Earth and Its Peoples p p

Pre-Historic Africa

East African and Sub-Saharan Kingdoms

Bantu Migrations: 1000 BCE To 500 CE

Kingdom of Axum [ ]

Stele, Ezana’s Royal Tomb, Aksum (4c)

Christian Church, Lalibela [Ethiopia]

Coptic Christian Priest

AXUM’S ACHIEVEMENTS Controlled NE African Trade Written Language Spread Christianity in No. & E. Africa Terrace Farming Built Stelae

Swahili-Speaking Areas of E. Africa SWAHILI [“the coast’] = Bantu + some Arabic

African Trade Routes

Great Zimbabwe Street

Great Zimbabwe [ ] “Zimbabwe” = “stone enclosure”

Manamotopa Empire [ ]

Berbers GOLD SALT Gold-Salt Trade

Gold “Money”, Ghana/Ivory Coast Ghana Empire [4c-11c]

Salt

Mali Empire [13c-15c] GOLD SALT

Islamic Invasions

Timbuktu-”Heavenly Clay”

Modern day marketplace near the Niger River

Great Mosque at Djenne, Mali

Sundiata [ ] “Lion Prince”

Mansa Musa [r ]

European Map

Songhai Empire [15c-16c] GOLD SALT

Sunni Ali [r ]

Askia Mohammed [r ]

Askia Mohammed’s Tomb [ ] Gao, Mali

Benin Empire [15c-19c]

Bronze Heads from Benin (16c)

Benin Bronze Leopard

Overland & Sea Trade Routes by 16c

African Trade [15c-17c]

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