dr. deborah barndt (environmental studies, york)
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Dr. Deborah Barndt (Environmental Studies, York). attend up to two talks each semester our next class, hand in a two page, double spaced synopsis/analysis relate to overall questions of Global History I will grade each out of 3 – so up to 6% bonus per term. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Dr. Deborah Barndt(Environmental Studies, York)
Fire in the Belly: Igniting Popular Education with Spirit, Song and Story12:30pm - 1:15pm
Friday, Sept. 14
12:30 -1:15
Dennis Hall
Arts 4 Social Change6:30pm - 9:00pmThursday, September 13Dennis Hall
•attend up to two talks each semester• our next class, hand in a two page, double spaced synopsis/analysis• relate to overall questions of Global History • I will grade each out of 3 – so up to 6% bonus per term
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Were you surprised about where the text began?
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“the paradoxical result was that the world was becoming more interconnected, while its regions were becoming more differentiated”
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Shaping the nature of contactCommercial connections: technology and
knowledge of the sea, wind and landmasses
political stabilityorganization
Commercial developments: commoditiesmetropolitan centers
swahili
amphora
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Conclusion• revolutions at sea• societal maturity
possibilities of connectedness
and, increasing difference
Over the next few classes – examine those differences in Africa, western Asia, south Asia
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The ‘Dark’ Continent?
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Geography of the African Continent: impact on human societies
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The Gift of the Nile
• gradual, predictable flooding• sprouting, inundation, summer
• communication:• Nubia-Egypt• current: north/Winds: south• Sub-Saharan Africa-
Mesopotamia
• increased in importance with desiccation of the Sahara
Early Agriculture
• evidence 10,000 BCE• migrants from Red Sea hills
(northern Ethiopia)• introduce collection of wild
grains, language roots Coptic
• Why does this matter?
• 5000 BCE • Sudanese cultivators and
herders migrate to Nile river valley
• adaption to seasonal flooding of Nile through construction of dikes, waterways• villages dot Nile by 4000
BCE
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Bantu Migrations, 2000 B.C.E-1000 C.E.Bantu: “people”
• migration throughout sub-Saharan
regions
• 500+ variations of original Bantu
languages• 90 million speakers
• by 1000 BCE, occupied most of Africa south of the equator
• displaced other people-groups
• evidence?
20C Nyamwezi, Tanzania (1940s?)
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Regional African states, c.1300
Mande, Mandinkaalso Babara and
Sarakole, Tuareg, Songhai, Doagon
peoplesGhanaMali Empire, 13C
Also note: Yoruba statesKongoEthiopiaGreat Zimbabweswahili city-states
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Highly complex and sophisticated organization
Sankore Masjid, Tombouctou Evidence:oral history – griotstraveler’s accountsarchaeology
mosque, Djenne 1989
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Africa in the Islamic WorldWatch terminology
Africa ↔ western Asiasouth Asiaeast Asiasoutheast Asia
Trading ↔ goldivory, hardwoods,
feathersskins, gemspeople – for work genes, marriage, ideas, beliefs
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Conclusions• factors that limited connections between the continent of Africa and
the outside world • factors that allowed for connections • How do we know ?(evidence necessary/possible)
• remain important to the present: geography
• why if Egypt has been thought of as a Mediterranean civilization, why have historiansgrouped other African societies together differently?
• think about the implications for understanding belief and social organization
• Terms: swahili dhow complex societies