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1 African Empires

2 SAHARA DESERT Timbuktu Niger River Congo River Zambezi River Limpopo River

3 He who controls trade, controls the world
Rule #3

4 Rulers of the Nile Egypt Kush (Nubia) Aksum
Mesopotamians (Assyria, Persia, Rome) Aksum Aksum was a rich and successful trading empire Traded with Europe, the Arabian Peninsula, Egypt, Persia, and India

5 Aksum Where is it? Converted to Christianity Ethiopian highlands
Became the Ethiopians Stayed Christian until modern times

6 Great Zimbabwe Powerful trade city in Southern Africa Near gold
Access to the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers

7 Great Zimbabwe Mysterious
Giant circular walls that don’t look defensive City was suddenly abandoned

8 West Africa What is the most important geographic feature of West Africa?

9 West Africa

10 Trade SALT Camels GOLD! West Africa has something everybody wants
West Africa needs something they can get from the desert What’s the best way to get stuff across a desert? GOLD! SALT Camels

11 Gold-Salt Trade

12 Gold-Salt Trade Gold went from West Africa to other parts of the world
Salt was traded from the Sahara to West Africa Ideas and goods from the Mediterranean entered into Sub-Saharan Africa Islam expands through trade, not war

13 West African Empires All three West African Empires became powerful in the same way Control the trade! People who lived where the best gold mines were, built armies and conquered everyone else

14 Ghana First empire in West Africa Led by a king
Controlled the supply of gold Collected taxes Protected traders Safety

15 Mali Gold mines moved east so new people take over
Sundiata (sun-JAT-ah) creates an empire Title “mansa,” or war chief Mansa Musa Converted to Islam and made the Hajj City of Timbuktu – center of trade

16 Songhai Gold mines moved east so new people take over Just like Mali
Conquered by Moroccans with guns

17 Islam in Africa African religion was based on the belief in nature and ancestor spirits, called animism Trade spreads Islam throughout West Africa and East African coast Mali and Songhai

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