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AFRICA STATIONS RELIGION IN AFRICA 1200-1450  Most people in Sub-Saharan Africa retained their traditional animist religion 1200-1450  Animist Religion  Spirits of nature  Importance of diviners- fortune tellers  Creation myths involving ancestor veneration  Belief in magic and supernatural forces  Label Sub-Saharan Africa as ANIMIST and annotate with 2 facts about this religion Station 1 RELIGION IN AFRICA 1200-1450 Spread of Islam in Africa Color or shade the areas which converted to Islam in Africa. Annotate each of the following regions with HOW Islam spread - West Africa - North Africa - East Africa (use your reading to help) Station 1 RELIGION IN AFRICA 1200-1450  Christianity spread to Africa during the time of the Roman Empire  Egypt and Ethiopia became important Christian centers  Even after the conquest of North Africa by Muslim armies in the 700s, Ethiopia remained Christian. This artwork from Ethiopia shows Jesus as an African. Label Ethiopia as Christian. Station 1 RELIGION IN AFRICA 1200-1450  Islam came to North Africa beginning in the 600s CE when Muslim armies conquered it and set up the Umayyad Caliphate (green on map below) Station 1 WEST AFRICA People in West Africa used Niger River as a natural highway for trade Rice, fish, baskets, and pottery were brought to cities in the north and salt, copper, and stone were brought south Other traders traveled along the Niger River and brought back gold By 800 CE, camel caravans connected West Africa with North Africa across the Sahara Annotate your map with goods traded in West Africa Label the Niger River on your map Station 2 WEST AFRICA  Trade brought great wealth to West African rulers  Collected taxes on goods that were bought and sold within kingdom– the most important goods were gold and salt  Regulated commerce  Used wealth to build powerful armies and conquered territory  Annotate Mali on the map with info about how they became wealthy Label Mali, Niger River, Timbuktu Station 2 LABEL TRANS-SAHARAN TRADE (GOLD-SALT) Station 3 Annotate the map with the locations of gold and salt Station 3 TRANS-SAHARAN TRADE  North Africa was conquered in the 600s-700s by Muslim armies who converted the nomads of North Africa to Islam  These nomads, called Berbers, began to travel across the Sahara by camel caravan seeking to trade gold and salt with the people of West Africa  As they traded, Islam spread south across the Sahara to West Africa  Annotate your map with info about how Islam spread to West Africa if you haven’t already done so. Station 3 MALI  Mansa Musa- king of Mali beginning 1307 CE  Converted to Islam and took hajj to Mecca in 1325  Took 60,000 people in entourage on hajj  Brought huge amounts of gold and supplies  Musa gave our gold on his way and became famous throughout the region  Musa wanted to incorporate Muslim culture into his kingdom  Brought back Muslim scholars and architects to help spread Islamic culture to West Africa  Built large mosque and Islamic schools in Timbuktu Station 4 Station 4 LABEL MANSA MUSA’S HAJJ- ANNOTATE WITH 3 FACTS ABOUT HIM OR HIS JOURNEY S t a t i o n 4 Remember the song? Mosque in Timbuktu Station 4 Label Kongo And annotate with 2 facts Station 5 KONGO  Descended from Bantu speaking farmers  Traditional animist religious beliefs  Important industries: farming, fishing, hunting, trade  Capital city- Mbanza was important center for trade with rest of Africa  used cowrie shells as money  Divided into provinces  Success of kingdom based on tax collection  Taxes collected by chiefs, then governors, then king Station 5 Label Great Zimbabwe Station 6 GREAT ZIMBABWE  Between 500-1000 CE, Bantu speaking people settled around the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers  Were farmers, had lots of gold but didn’t value it  Took their gold to the east coast of Africa where they traded for fabric, pottery, spices, and exotic foods  Rulers became wealthy through gold and trade and established a powerful state called Zimbabwe  Capital- Great Zimbabwe  Known for huge stone walls (see pic) Annotate with how Great Zimbabwe became wealthy- include specific goods Station 6 Station 6 LABEL INDIAN OCEAN TRADE ROUTES, KEY TRADING REGIONS, AND MONSOONS Station 7 Label Mogadishu, Kilwa Label Swahili Coast (circled) Station 7 SWAHILI COAST Trade with the Middle East and Asia developed along the eastern coast of Africa Part of this was made possible by monsoon winds blew west towards Africa in the winter and east towards Asia in the summer Trading cities like Mogadishu, Mombasa, Zanzibar, and Kilwa were all independent with their own rulers Label Goods on Places they Came From Traders from India brought spices, rice, and cotton Traders from China brought porcelain, silk, and jade Arab traders brought incense, glass, pearls, and fabrics  Africans brought gold, ivory, and iron to the coast  Rulers of trading cities became wealthy by taxing trade  Eventually, Portuguese came to the Swahili Coast in the 1500s and conquered trade cities and destroyed some inland gold empires  Annotate the map with trade goods from the different trading areas Station 7 SWAHILI COAST  What always happens with trade? CULTURAL DIFFUSION!  Arab merchants brought Islam and their culture to Africa through trade  Although rulers of Swahili states converted, Islam penetrated very little into the interior and many people on the coast maintained traditional religion  Swahili- Arab word meaning “people of the shore”- mixture of African and Arab cultures and language  Swahili Language- mixture of Arab and Bantu words  Mixture of culture represented in architecture, language, food, dress, government structure, intermarriage, etc.  Annotate the map with where Swahili language started and info about it Station 7