Chapter 8

Chapter 8

Early Civilizations in Africa

Chapter Outline

• I. The Emergence of Civilization

  • A. The Land

  • B.The First Farmers

  • C. Axum and Meroë

  • D. The Sahara and Its Environs

    • 1. The Garamantes

  • E. East Africa

• II. The Coming of Islam

  • A. African Religious Beliefs Before Islam

  • B. The Arabs in North Africa

  • C. The Kingdom of Ethiopia: A Christian Island in a Muslim Sea

  • D. East Africa: The Land of Zanj

  • E. The States of West Africa

    • 1. Ghana

    • 2. Mali

• III. States and Noncentralized Societies in Central and Southern Africa

  • A. The Congo River Valley

  • B. Zimbabwe

  • C. Southern Africa

    • 1. The Khoi and the San

  • D. Africa: A Continent Without History?

• IV. African Society

  • A. Urban Life

  • B. Village Life

  • C. The Role of Women

  • D. Slavery

• V. African Culture

  • A. Painting and Sculpture

  • B. Music

  • C. Architecture

  • D. Literature

Study Help:

1. Ancient civilization located in present day Ethiopia

2. Unique aspect of ancient Ethiopian civilization?

3. How did the environment of the Sahara Desert change?

4. North African people who were trade intermediaries

5. Great iron-working culture in northern Nigeria

6. Characteristics of East African trade

7. Arrival of Islam in Africa

8. Zanj characteristics

9. Rise of the kingdom of Ghana was because of?

10. Ghana's exports

11. nature of the African lineage group

12. Existence of slavery in Africa

13. Most notable aspect of African culture

14. Southern Nigerian art

15. Gender relations

16. Lowest & basic level of African social groupings

17. San & Khoi linked by?

18. Mali & Mansa Musa

19. Integration that takes place in S. Africa

20. Founding of Axum

Vocab

• 1. mansa

  2. bard

  3. Berbers

  4. Coptic

  5. lineage group

  6. matrilinear

  7. Nok culture

  8. noncentralized societies

  9. pantheism

  10. patrilinear

  11. Swahili