1. Change: Swahili Unification
East Africa
Continuity: Trade Networks
Change: Religion
Why: Trade started in Swahili on the East coast of Africa. Essential Goods were traded such as gold, ivory, and slaves. The Indian Ocean Trade allowed East Africa to reach many parts of the world including China. East Africa provided incentives for Indian Ocean commerce.
Why: Religion in East Africa started as polytheism but has changed to become more monotheistic Some suggest that monotheism first arose in the religion of Zoroastrianism. Others have argued that Egypt was the birthplace of monotheism. Even then, they have kept changing like from Christianity to Islam.
Change: Swahili Unification
Why: Between 1000 and 1500 the Swahili coast had no imperial system or larger territorial states. Later the swahili coast created unified city states. The Swahili were groups of different people who came together near the coast. Their culture was influenced by Middle Eastern, Indian, Persian and Portuguese cultures
Key Civilizations: Meroe, Axum, Swahili Coast, and Egypt.
Key Figures:
King Ezana
TIMELINE
~2000 BC:
Irrigation begins which causes the start of trade in Africa
~1600 BC:
Kush Empire & Egyptian Kingdom is founded
~1350 BC:
Akhenaton starts monotheism in Egypt
~ CE:
Ethiopian Axum is created and becomes Christian
~500 CE:
Nubia changes to become a Christian Kingdom
~700 CE:
Berbers in North Africa convert to Islam
~800 CE:
Ghana Controls the Gold-Salt Trade
~1000 CE:
East African Trading Kingdoms prosper
~1348 CE:
Egypt gets devastated by Black Plague

3. Bookmarks Moses leaves Israelis out of Egypt- 1280
Egypt united under Nubian rule- 712 BCE
Alexander the great conquers Egypt- 332 BCE
Nubia converted to Christianity- 540 CE
AD Swahili Cultrue Developes through trade