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Eastern City-States and Southern Empires. Chapter 15. Miss. Gillece. What can be found in this region?. Important trading cities along the east coast Trade with Arabia, Persia and India Farming and fishing villages. Swahili Language. A language blended with Arabic and Bantu-language - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Miss. Gillece
Eastern City-States and Southern Empires
Chapter 15
What can be found in this region?
Important trading cities along the east coast
Trade with Arabia, Persia and India
Farming and fishing villages
Swahili Language
A language blended with Arabic and Bantu-language
1. Tungo ni safi nzuri, ahsantuuUtunzi huna dosari, wewe juuWaenda njema safari, ya majuuHassani wewe hodari, ni mkuu
Beti zanukia wazi, karafuuTwafurahia ujuzi, ulio juuFuraha kubwa azizi, sikukuuMkono wenye pongezi, shika huu -A Bakk
New goods on the East Coast
New goods brought by the Persians from other places (porcelain bowls from China and cloth from India)
Africans traded- ivory, gold, tortoiseshells, leopard skins and rhinoceros horns
Trade Goods East African Trade, 1000
Page 423
Origin Raw Materials Products Made
Savanna Region Leopard Skins Saddles
Coastal Region Tortoiseshells Combs
Southern AfricaGold from
minesCoins, Jewlery
Savanna RegionIvory from Elephants
Chess pieces, sword hilts
The City-State of Kilwa
The most wealthy and powerful coastal city-state
By controlling Sofala and the overseas trade of gold from South Africa
Islamic Influences
Spread through trading and the enslavement of Africans by the Arab Muslim traders
Great Zimbabwe
An empire built on the gold trade
Controlled the trade route from the gold to the city of Sofala
Mystery: No one knows why abandoned, theory is that they ran out of grasslands
Mutapa Empire
Conquered Zimbabwe once abandoned
Founder: Mutota, who left Zimbabwe in 1420 to find salt
Strong empire