1. What were the causes and effects of African migration?
DO NOW: What do you know about Africa?
HW: How might life in the United States today be affected if well watered areas began to turn into dessert? Due Wednesday April 1st

2. Vocabulary
Desertification: process by which fertile or semi-dessert land becomes dessert
Savanna: a grassy plain in tropical and subtropical regions, with few trees
Bantu Migrations: series of migrations of the Bantu people from the Congo area to present day Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania.

3. Climate Zones Sahara Desert, largest desert in the world
Although huge in size, and rough terrain, it was still considered as a huge trade route.
These regions contained salt, gold, iron, copper, oil and diamonds which spurred trade.

4. Movement between lands
Besides barriers like rainforests, and desserts, migrators also had to deal with enormous coastlines.
The Red Sea, and Indian Ocean were very important as it lead to trade routes with the Middle East and other Asian lands.

5. Bantu Migration
Scholars have traced African farmers trading from 1000 B.C to 1000 A.D.
These people spoke a variety of languages, that come from one root language… Bantu.
In many regions, this type of trading built empires.
Archaeologists believe that the migration was caused by the development of agriculture, and ceramics of iron.

6. Photo of Bantu Migration

7. Kingdom of Nubia Nubia, also called Kush, is in present day Sudan.
Nubia was taken over by various African Pharaohs.
Nubian rulers moved capital to Meroe.
Meroe commanded Nile trade routes containing goods such as gold, ivory, animal skins, perfumes, and slaves to the Middle East and the Mediterranean.
Highly important in Iron Ore.

8. Independent Activity
Act like you are on a journey, and you have a journal that you keep updated daily, what would you write about your expedition??? BE CREATIVE!!!
1 to 1 and a half pages long

9. Exit Slip
Would you like to live in Africa at this time in history? Why?/Why not?