1. Do-First: Write your name on the top of you handout!
SWBAT
Analyze the importance of Migrations patterns, animism, and the Nile River in Africa by completing a gallery walk.

2. Bantu Migration – Station 1
The Bantu migration went from 2000BC to 1000 AD. It started in West Africa and went to South Africa. There were two different routes used to spread their culture and language, eastern and western.

3. Slave Trade – Station 2

4. Triangular Trade – Station 2
10% went to North America
40% went to the Caribbean
50% went to South America

5. Slave Trade/Triangular Trade Info – Station 2
Describes when people were forced to move out of Africa (emigration) as enslaved persons. Note: slavery existed before this.
African nations would already sell slaves to other empires, they didn’t see a difference selling them to the Europeans
Occurred because Europeans wanted slaves for their plantations (large farms) in the Americas.
The slave trade was part of a global trade pattern known as the Triangular Trade.

6. Animism – Station 3
Animism is a traditional system of belief in which people give religious meaning to nature and things in nature such as all animals and living things having a spirit.

7. Animism – Station 3

8. Islam in Africa – Station 4
Map #1

9. Islam in Africa – Station 4
Map #2

10. Islam in Africa – Station 4
Monotheistic religion (one god)
Based on teachings of prophet Muhammad
Belief in the five pillars
Daily prayers
Fasting during Ramadan
Belief in one god, Allah
Pilgrimage to Mecca
Almsgiving (charity)

11. Egypt and the Nile River – Station 5

12. Egypt and the Nile – Station 5

13. Egypt and the Nile – Station 5
The Nile River made possible the existence of the great civilization of ancient Egypt. The river flooded at roughly the same time every year, providing the people with water and rich soil for their crops. Movement influenced ancient Egypt and the Nile Valley. Egyptian ideas about farming, the building of their cities, and their system of writing may have come from the Mesopotamians, who lived in what is now Southwest Asia. Trade and travel on the Nile River, Mediterranean Sea and Red Seas, and overland trade routes helped spread those practices.

14. Trading Empires – Station 6

15. Trading Empires – Station 6
Included empires of:
Ghana (800 AD – 1000s)
Mali (1235 – 1400)
Songhai (1400 – 1591)
Main goods traded: salt and gold
Empires grew rich from trade