States and Societies of Sub-Saharan Africa by Ms.Stasi https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o Historical Thinking en-us 2017-12-11 19:55:24 UTC 2017-12-12 16:14:25 UTC hello@padlet.com Axum declined and then, during the 12th century, a new dynasty formed in the same place and promoted the same religion. https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215451835 2017-12-12 15:19:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215451835 https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215452054 Camels replaced horses and donkeys when traveling through the Sahara because the didn't need as much water. The animal changed but the traveling across the Sahara didn't change]]> 2017-12-12 15:19:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215452054 https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215452125 Land and water routes became the basis for transregional trade, because merchants mariners would commonly use sea lanes of the Indian ocean to trade with the east African Coast and the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman sailors would do the same using the red sea.

]]> 2017-12-12 15:19:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215452125 https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215452682 The Swahili societies were influenced by Arabian culture. The Swahili language is a Bantu language with Arabic influences.]]> 2017-12-12 15:20:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215452682 https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215453179 The Ghana's political leadership fell and their empire dissolved. Later on,  after the Mali empire formed, and the Mali expanded over where the Ghana once stood.]]> 2017-12-12 15:21:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215453179 https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215453295 Bananas entered Africa by way of sea lanes across the Indian Ocean.]]> 2017-12-12 15:21:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215453295 https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215453918 Diviners were educated people who could communicate with gods and deities and would give advice to families when they ran into problems, such as illness or crop failure.]]> 2017-12-12 15:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215453918 https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215454615 Early city of Jenne-jeno merchants would trade their developed iron products as well as food supplies and domesticated animals across North Africa and the Mediterranean to the savannas and forests of central Africa. ]]> 2017-12-12 15:23:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215454615 During the the conversion of Islam in African societies, women began to be restricted more (from speaking to men other than their husband, wearing clothes showing their head) as Islam was adopted. https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215454727 2017-12-12 15:23:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215454727 https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215454843 Islamic merchants traveled across the Sahara and made commercial relations with sub-Saharan Africa]]> 2017-12-12 15:24:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215454843 https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215455006 The Swahili were coastal communities that traded along the coast, and later became a popular trade destination in Indian Ocean routes]]> 2017-12-12 15:24:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215455006 Mansa Musa, ruler of Mali from 1312 to 1337, went on pilgramage to Mecca. Upon his return to Mali, he took the Islamic religion more seriously and made Islam better known in the Mali empire. This included religious schools and bringing in Arabian and north African teachers, including four of Muhammad's descendants. https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215455022 2017-12-12 15:24:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215455022 nichole_patrick2 https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215455037 The creator god was a dominant god from the early days of agriculture. When they underwent considerable development as individual people they learned about deities honored in their societies.]]> 2017-12-12 15:24:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215455037 After the Mali empire would fall, the Songhay would take it's place. https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215455148 2017-12-12 15:24:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215455148 https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215455276 The population history of sub-Saharan Africa reflects the significance of iron metallurgy and bananas]]> 2017-12-12 15:24:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215455276 Nomadic tribes would establish small commercial expeditions with Sub-Saharan kingdoms. https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215455809 2017-12-12 15:25:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215455809 https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215456302 Increased conflict between villages resulted in the formation of Chiefdoms who overrode previous developments and controlled their territories.]]> 2017-12-12 15:26:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215456302 Integration into trans-Saharan trade networks brought great amounts of wealth and power to Ghana. https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215457172 2017-12-12 15:27:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215457172 https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215457292 Later on (11th and 12th centuries), trade concentrated on more coastal trade in East Africa.]]> 2017-12-12 15:27:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215457292 https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215457806 During and after the Bantu migrations, stateless/segmentary societies became prevalent. 

]]> 2017-12-12 15:28:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215457806 https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215458183 The Swahili society language was influenced and formed by the Arabians]]> 2017-12-12 15:28:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215458183 https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215459072 The forest people converted to Bantu society as a result of increasing Bantu population, which made it difficult for them to forage.]]> 2017-12-12 15:30:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215459072 https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215459251 In Bantu society, males were the heads of families and helped to make up the villages' ruling councils. This later changed ad Bantu communities began to fight & chiefs began to create kingdoms out of multiple neighboring societies.]]> 2017-12-12 15:30:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215459251 https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215460104 although Christianity and Islam were prominent, they served more as a supplement instead of a replacement because traditional practices like nature and ancestor worship remained prominant  ]]> 2017-12-12 15:32:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215460104 https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215460353 Over the emergence of Islam, Saharan overland routes linked west Africa with the Mediterranean region, while maritime trade routes linked east Africa to the Indian Ocean basin.]]> 2017-12-12 15:32:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215460353 https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215460403 East African trade concentrated into several port cities that grew in population as more people settled in them, thus relying more on agriculture. Architecture advanced from wood and mud materials to large buildings constructed out of coral

]]> 2017-12-12 15:32:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215460403 https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215460459 This is shown in the Swahili city-sates when the cities themselves underwent an impressive transformation from trade which brought wealth to coastal east Africa. From the works of that new states were formed in some regions.]]> 2017-12-12 15:32:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215460459 https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215460514 The Bantu people had no or little government or hierarchy officials, but they did have a did have a chief that represented the village. They developed kin-based societies.]]> 2017-12-12 15:33:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215460514 https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215460585 In the basin of the Congo River kin-based societies were pressured by military and population challenges, resulting in the formation of small states that included a few small villages each.]]> 2017-12-12 15:33:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215460585 https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215461181 Nobles in east Africa began to adopt Islam as their religion of choice. Even though they were now Islamic, they didn't give up their original cultural and religious traditions for the sake of providing leadership to their societies. The ruling elites converting to Islam had also gained legitimacy in the eyes of Islamic states in southwest Asia.]]> 2017-12-12 15:34:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215461181 https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215463773 Because of the increasing population in Sub-Sahara Africa some  people had to live in the forest and would become forest specialist. The effect that this had was forest specialist being able to trade things such as animal skins with the Bantu communities for iron tools]]> 2017-12-12 15:38:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215463773 https://padlet.com/mmstasi1/68fiicxmw7o/wish/215474211 The conversion of ruling elites to Islam affected their trade with Muslim Merchants from North Africa and Southwest Asia because they both had a cultural foundation

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