Africa in a Day Mr. Ornstein Willow Canyon High School World Cultures

Africa in a Day

Mr. OrnsteinWillow Canyon High School

World Cultures

Continent of Africa

•Africa is a continent not a country.

•Africa is a continent made up of many countries.

The Map of Africa

•The Current Map of Africa is based on European Colonial Borders and Not African Tribes.

•Current Borders Conflict with Traditional African Tribal Borders and Leads to Much Conflict

Ask???

•What does Someone from Africa look like?

Who is African???

Rivers in Africa

•The Nile•The Congo•Zambezi

Rainforests

•Africa has many tropical rainforests.

Irregular Coastline

•Lack of Natural Harbors•Harder to Explore with the

Interior of Africa•Limits Trade and Cultural

Diffusion.•North Africa Has More Trade

and Contact

African Resources

• Diamonds• Gold• Minerals• Cultural Diversity• Salt

Ask???

•Which Resource do you think is most valuable???

Salt

•One of the most important minerals in history.

•Basis of much of the trade in Africa.

Geographic Features of Africa

•The Savanna- Fertile African Grass Lands

•Similar to the Steppes of Central Asia and the Pampas of South America

Geographic Areas of Africa

•Sahara- World’s Largest Desert

•Divides Africa•Sub-Sahara Africa refers to

portion of Africa below the Sahara Desert.

Tribalism

•Loyalty to Your Tribe•Tribe is Most Important

Traditional Family Unit in Africa

•Creates Cultural Diversity•Conflicts with Loyalty towards

country.

Bantu Migration

• 3000 BC• People and

Language Migration across Africa.

• New farming and metal working methods allowed Bantu speaking people to migrate across Africa.

Early Kingdoms of Africa

• Axum• Kush• Nubia• Ghana• Songhai• Mali

West African Trading Kingdoms

•Songhai, Mali, Ghana•Rich from Trade of salt, gold,

slaves

Timbuktu

•Great City of Old Africa

•Religious, Trade, Cultural, and Educational Center

Islam Expands to Africa

•Around 700 Islam Expands to North Africa

•After 800 Islam expands into Western Africa.

•Connects Parts of Africa to Islamic Trade Networks.

Mansa Musa

• Powerful King of Mali• One of the Most Powerful African

Rulers• Muslim• Famous Hajj to Mecca• 60,000 People, 12,000 slaves, 80

camels carrying 300lbs of gold each

East African Trading Ports

• Swahilil and Bantu Speaking• Islamic• East Coast of Africa: Mogadishu,

Sofala, Barawa• Trade with India, Middle East,

and China

The Great Zimbabwe

• South Eastern Africa• Traded with China• Buildings so monumental and

advanced that Europeans did not believe they were built by Africans.

• Traded Gold with Middle East and China.