Ms Susan M Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua

Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

Pre-Historic Africa

Kingdom of Kush [295 BCE – 320 CE] Nubia [modern-day Sudan]

Pyramids of Kush at Meroë

Pyramids of Kush at Meroë

Kushite in Egypt, 23 BCE

Kingdom of Axum [300 -700]

Stele, Ezana’s Royal Tomb, Aksum (4 c)

Christian Church, Lalibela [Ethiopia]

Christian Church, Lalibela [Ethiopia] Coptic Christian Priest

Controlled NE African Trade AXUM’S ACHIEVEMENTS Written Language Built Stelae Terrace Farming Spread Christianity in No. & E. Africa

Gold-Salt Trade SALT GOLD Berbers

Ghana Empire [4 c-11 c] Gold “Money”, Ghana/Ivory Coast

Salt

Mali Empire SALT GOLD [13 c-15 c]

Timbuktu-”Heavenly Clay”

Timbuktu Rooftop, Mosque

Tuaregs

Marketplace near the Niger River

Mosque in Gao

Great Mosque at Djenne, Mali

Distant Mosque at Djenne, Mali

Sundiata [1210 -1260] “Lion Prince”

Mansa Musa [r. 1312 -1337]

European Map

Songhai Empire SALT GOLD [15 c-16 c]

Sunni Ali [r. 1464 -1492]

Askia Mohammed [r. 1493 -1529]

Askia Mohammed’s Tomb Gao, Mali [1443 -1538]

Benin Empire [15 c-19 c]

Bronze Heads from Benin (16 c)

Benin Bronze Leopard

Bantu Migrations: 1000 BCE To 500 CE

Islamic Invasions

African Trade Routes

Swahili-Speaking Areas of E. Africa SWAHILI [“the coast’] = Bantu + some Arabic

Arab Dow off the coast of Zanzibar

Great Zimbabwe [1200 -1450] “Zimbabwe” = “stone enclosure”

Great Zimbabwe Street

Great Enclosure, Zimbabwe

Manamotopa Empire [1450 -1630]

Overland & Sea Trade Routes by 16 c

African Trade [15 c-17 c]