1. Guided Reading 13-3

2. Bantu 3000 BC fishing groups along Benue river moved south and west
Called themselves Bantu- the people
By A.D. 400 Bantu had settled most of Africa
TQ spread skills like pottery making, mining, and iron working
Bantu migration explains why people across Africa share some common ideas and traditions.

3. Families Formed the basis of African society
Lived with several generations
Matrilineal- traced descent through mothers, not fathers
Women who married joined their husband’s families
Children valued

4. Education E Carried out by family and other villagers
Learned history and skills needed as adults
Griots, storytellers passed down oral histories and lessons about living

5. Women Mostly wives and mothers Served as soldiers in some kingdoms
Queen Dahia al-Kahina led fight against Muslim invasion
Queen Nzinga battled Portuguese slave traders

6. Slavery
Bantu chiefs raided nearby villages for captives who became laborers or were freed for a payment
Criminals or enemies taken in war
Trade in humans grew as trade with Muslim merchants increased
Quran forbade enslavement of Muslims

7. Slavery Europeans arrived opening a new market
Africans armed with European guns raided villages for captives to sell
Portuguese were first to trade
First most stayed in Portugal
Changed when Portuguese explorers settled New World
Sent to work on sugar plantations
Others sent to harvest cotton, rice, grapes, tobacco

8. Culture
Africans carried to other places known as African Diaspora- what other culture is this term associated with?
Art
Cave paintings earliest form
Woodcarving – masks and statues used to celebrate religious beliefs
Always had some religious meaning

9. African Cave Painting

10. Culture Music and Dance Music in all parts of life
Religious feelings and getting through tedious, or arduous tasks.
Call and response
Drums, whistles, horns, flutes, banjos
Dance allowed spirits to express themselves.
Celebrated important events: birth, death

11. Storytelling
Kept storytelling and oral history alive during Diaspora and enslavement
Escaped slaves able to share stories
Retold tales taught in African homeland
Small animals turtles and rabbits outsmarted larger ones