AP World History, Africa Civilizations Flashcards
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| 7794666748 | Earliest. African Civilizations Dates | 8000-6000BCE | 0 | |
| 7794677432 | Earliest African Civilizations Economic Activites | Nomads/Farmers *Pastoralist camps *Domesticated animals *Grew wheat and yams *Worked with metal, pottery and jewelry | 1 | |
| 7794677443 | Earliest African Civilizations Religion | Animism: spirits play an important role in regulating daily life. Spirits present in animals, plants, natural forces, and ancestral spirits | 2 | |
| 7794678303 | Earliest African Civilizations Accomplishments | Nok:West Africans 1st civilization. 500-BC to 200AD Smelted iron for tools and weapons. Terra cotta scultures | 3 | |
| 7794738637 | Earliest African Civilizations City | Djenne-Djeno: oldest known city discovered in 1977. Dates 250 BCE -1400 AD. 50,000 people. | 4 | |
| 7794746350 | Earliest African Civilizations Other Characteristics | *Griot: story tellers that orally shared the history and literature..passed down by generation. Oral history..kept history alive. | 5 | |
| 7794770046 | Earliest African Civilizations Problems | *Tsetse Fly: carried disease that killed livestock & fatal sleeping sickness in humans....but also kept out invaders! | 6 | |
| 7794773437 | Earliest African Civilizations Another Fact | Women collected clean water. | 7 | |
| 7794790759 | Bantu Economic Activities | *Nomads/farmers *Iron smelting *Used slash and burn for farming | 8 | |
| 7794793893 | Bantu Factors | Push/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 opportunities | 9 | |
| 7794796333 | Bantu Accomplishments | Passed along ironworking skills | 10 | |
| 7794815690 | Bantu Language | Language: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 | |
| 7794819131 | Bantu Swahili | Swahili mixture of Bantu and Arabic still spoken today | 12 | |
| 7794823807 | Aksum Location | Ethiopia&Eritrea | 13 | |
| 7794827945 | Aksum Dates | 300-700AD | 14 | |
| 7794831675 | Bantu Trade | Products traded: Salt, rhino horns, tortoise shells, ivory, gold... | 15 | |
| 7794863357 | Bantu City | Adulis: Center of trade. Sea port. Located on the Red Sea | 16 | |
| 7794939856 | Bantu Religion | 17 |