Regional Outline for: Sub-Saharan Africa 8000 ? 600 CE 600 ? 1450 CE 1450-1750 CE 1750 ? 1914 CE 1914 - Present Politics Pharaoh/queen (living incarnation of sun god), internal disorder, invasions (900 BCE), irrigation Kingship legitimized by Islam, ?People of The Book?, Bantu (stateless societies) leaders cooperated with slave traders; monarchy Re-colonization of Africa; Sierra Leone, Liberia ; coastal kingdoms ruled by warlords/merchants; intertribal war; Revolutions; White Man?s Burden Decolonization of Africa; attempt at representative government; involved in WWII; renewed independence efforts( civil war, government corruption; socialism Economy Trade with Kush and Mesopotamia, agricultural villages engaged in trade.