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7794666748Earliest. African Civilizations Dates8000-6000BCE0
7794677432Earliest African Civilizations Economic ActivitesNomads/Farmers *Pastoralist camps *Domesticated animals *Grew wheat and yams *Worked with metal, pottery and jewelry1
7794677443Earliest African Civilizations ReligionAnimism: spirits play an important role in regulating daily life. Spirits present in animals, plants, natural forces, and ancestral spirits2
7794678303Earliest African Civilizations AccomplishmentsNok:West Africans 1st civilization. 500-BC to 200AD Smelted iron for tools and weapons. Terra cotta scultures3
7794738637Earliest African Civilizations CityDjenne-Djeno: oldest known city discovered in 1977. Dates 250 BCE -1400 AD. 50,000 people.4
7794746350Earliest African Civilizations Other Characteristics*Griot: story tellers that orally shared the history and literature..passed down by generation. Oral history..kept history alive.5
7794770046Earliest African Civilizations Problems*Tsetse Fly: carried disease that killed livestock & fatal sleeping sickness in humans....but also kept out invaders!6
7794773437Earliest African Civilizations Another FactWomen collected clean water.7
7794790759Bantu Economic Activities*Nomads/farmers *Iron smelting *Used slash and burn for farming8
7794793893Bantu FactorsPush/Pull: factors that can either push people out of one area or pull them into another area. Examples: Need to new land , lack of natural resources, political conditions such as freedom or persecution, job opportunities9
7794796333Bantu AccomplishmentsPassed along ironworking skills10
7794815690Bantu LanguageLanguage:Bantu language spread throughout Africa due to migration. Migrating looking for more land to meet demands of growing population. Bantu is basis for 900 individual languages in Africa.11
7794819131Bantu SwahiliSwahili mixture of Bantu and Arabic still spoken today12
7794823807Aksum LocationEthiopia&Eritrea13
7794827945Aksum Dates300-700AD14
7794831675Bantu TradeProducts traded: Salt, rhino horns, tortoise shells, ivory, gold...15
7794863357Bantu CityAdulis: Center of trade. Sea port. Located on the Red Sea16
7794939856Bantu Religion17
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