Unit 1 Topic 5 AP World

Bantu Migrations

• Where did it take place

• Who migrated

• What did they bring (three)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Bantu-speaking people

Agriculture techniques, iron smelting, language to other parts of Africa

Hausa Kingdoms

• How many city-states make up the Hausa Kingdoms

• What was the king of each city-state called

• What items were traded (six)

Seven

Sarkin kas

Gold, ivory, salt, iron cotton, animal hides, slaves

Mali Empire

• Who founded it

• Largest empire in where

• Known for what

• Controlled what

• What religion spread

Sundiata Keita

West Africa at its peak

Very rich rulers (Mansa Musa)

Trans-Saharan trade routes

Islam

Decline of the Mali Empire

Three things that contributed to its decline

New trade routes opened up in Songhai

European trading ships create competition for trans-Saharan caravans

Civil Wars over succession to the throne in Mali

Hidden Treasures of Timbuktu

What effect does conquest have on the recorded history of the place

What problems do historians face if they lack access to pre-colonial sources about a place like Timbuktu in Africa?

When Spaniards encountered the Maya in the Americas, they also destroyed the vast majority of Mayan written records. How does the destruction of both Mayan records by the Spanish and manuscripts from Timbuktu by Sufis and Moroccan conquerors affect us as students of history today?

Conquest caused historical writings to be burned or lost

Historians are unable to find much information and records of people during that time and don’t have info about Timbuktu

We know little about he people of that time; (What went on, conflicts, struggles, innovation)

Great Zimbabwe

• What is Zimbabwe

• Founded and abandoned in what centuries

• What suggests that it was a trading center

A dwelling in the Bantu

Founded in 9th destroyed in 15th

Chinese pottery and Arabic coins found in excavations sites suggest it was a trading center

Ethiopia

• What type of government

• Rulers claimed to be descended from who

• Imperial expansion led to control most of what

• Center of power moved so what did not occur

Feudal government

Biblical King Solomon and Queen of Sheba

Horn of Africa

Urbanization

Religion in Ethiopia

• Dominant religion in Ethiopia

• How does this set Ethiopia apart from other African states in this time period

• What is a monolithic structure? Name of one monolithic church in Ethiopia

Christianity

Other African states were Islamic

Monolithic: made of one material; Church of Saint George

Research: Songhai Empire

• What empire from this lesson did the Songhai empire replace?

• What city was the capital of the Songhai

Mali

Gao