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Section 1 – Geography and Early Africa - Page 380 - 383
EARLY AFRICAN CIVILIZATIONS
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VOCABULARY:
-Rift -Sub-Saharan Africa -Sahel -Savannah -Rain forests -Surplus-Animism
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Geography, resources, culture, and
trade influenced the growth of
societies in West Africa.
BIG IDEAGeography,
resources,
culture, and
trade
influenced the
growth of
societies in
West Africa.
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LANDFORMS, CLIMATE and RESOURCES
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Geography, resources, culture, and
trade influenced the growth of
societies in West Africa.
MAIN IDEALandforms,
climate and
resources
affected the
history of West
Africa.
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Africa is the second largest continent in the
world.
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An immense desert thatstretches across most of
Northern Africa - Sahara.
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Atlas Mountains -Northwestern edge of the Sahara.
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can be found on Southeastern edge of Africa.
The Drakensberg Mountains
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In Eastern
Africa –
Mountains
extend
along the
Great Rift.
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A long, deep valley formed by the
movement of the earth’s crust
RIFT
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From rifts, all the mountains dip into plateaus and wide, low plains.
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SUB-
SAHARAN
AFRICA
Africa
south of
the
Sahara
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…is
crossed
by mighty
rivers
(Nile,
Congo,
Zambezi,
and the
Niger).
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REGIONS OF WEST AFRICA
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Niger River – allowed people to live
in West Africa because of its water,
food, and transportation
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Along Niger’s middle section is a low-lying area
of lakes and marshes. Many animals find food
and shelter there – fish are plentiful
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Four different regions make up the
area surrounding the Niger River
which run east to west.
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NORTHERN
BANDruns along the
southern part of
the Sahara
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A semiarid region in Africa just south
of the Sahara that separates the
desert from wetter areas
SAHEL
SAHEL
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SAHELa strip of land
with little
rainfall that
divides the
desert from
wetter areas.
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SAVANNAH
An open grassland with
scattered trees
SAHEL
SAVANNAH
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SAVANNAH open
grassland with
scattered treesSAVANNAH
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RAIN FORESTS
A moist, densely wooded area that contains
many different plants and animals
SAHEL
SAVANNAH
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RAIN
FORESTSruns near the
equator. Gets
heavy rain. A
place of moist,
densely
wooded areas.
SAVANNAH
Rain Forest
Savannah
Sahel
Northern Band
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WEST AFRICA’S RESOURCES
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West Africa’s land is one of the region’s many resources.
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With its many
climates, the land
can produce
many different
crops.
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The traditional crops grown in
Western
Africa were
dates, kola
nuts, and
grains
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KOLA NUTS
Kola nuts are native to West Africa. The nuts are valued for it's stimulating, aphrodisiac and healing qualities. Extracts of these nuts are often found in energy drinks.
Kola nuts are important in many African societies, particularly in Western Africa. Besides the fact that Kola nuts contain caffeine and act as a stimulant and anti-depressant, they are also thought to reduce fatigue and hunger, aid digestion, and work as an aphrodisiac. In some parts of Africa, kola nuts are given as gifts to visitors entering a home, usually with some formal ceremony. Offering the kola nut is a gesture of friendship and hospitality.
Kola nuts are consumed by breaking them open and into pieces, then chewing the kola nut pieces as one chews gum. Most people find the taste very bitter, The stimulative effect is similar to a strong cup of coffee. In their raw form they are rather hard to find outside the tropics.
Kola nuts are best known outside of Africa as an ingredient in cola beverages. There is some evidence that the first kola (or cola) beverage was made by Western Africans who mixed water with dried or fermented kola nuts. Commercially produced cola drinks were developed in the late 1800s, when chemists and inventors the world over used kola nuts in various drinks and tonics. The most famous of these is Coca-Cola, which has become a truly global beverage.
More recently, kola nuts and kola nut extract have become popular in Europe and North America as a natural or alternative medicine.
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Other resources were minerals
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Gold (a mineral), from the forests, was
especially prized.
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Salt from the Sahara, was also prized.
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Salt was used to keep food from spoiling and people needed it in their diet to survive Africa’s hot climate.
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What are some of West Africa’s major
resources?(FINDING MAIN
IDEAS)
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Can you also answer these questions?
A. Where in Africa are the rifts located? (RECALL)
B. How were two of West Africa’s valuable mineral resources related to local physical geography? (EXPLAIN)
C. What does sub-Saharan Africa mean? (DEFINE)
D. What did the Niger River provide people living in theregion? (SUMMARIZE)
E. What impact might the vast Sahara have on the people of this continent? (PREDICT)
F. Why might more people live in the savannah than in the Sahel? (DRAW CONCLUSIONS)
G. How might the different climates in West Africa affect settlement patterns and the growth of towns? (PREDICT)
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Can you also answer these questions?
H. What crops were harvested in West Africa? (RECALL)
I. Why was salt important to West Africans? (EXPLAIN)
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"Early African Civilizations." World History. : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing
Company, 2012. . Print.
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Early People’s Way of Life
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Geography, resources, culture, and
trade influenced the growth of
societies in West Africa.
MAIN IDEAThe way of life of
early peoples in
West Africa was
was shaped by by
family ties, religion,
iron technology,
and trade.
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The typical early West African family wasan
EXTENDED FAMILY
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A family group that includes a father, mother,
children, and close relative in one household.
EXTENDED FAMILY
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West African society expected each person to be loyal to his or her family.
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In some area, people became part of age-sets.
Men born within a few years of each other (2-3 years) would form special bonds.
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Women also formed age-sets.
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Loyalty to family and age-sets helped people of a village to work
together.
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Men would hunt, farm, and raise livestock
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Women collected firewood, ground grain,
carried water, and cared for children.
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Religion was another feature
of village life.
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Many believed (Western Africans) that their ancestors’
spirits stayed nearby.
To honor these spirits, families marked places as sacred by putting specially carved statues there.
They also offered food to their ancestors.
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Another common West African belief was animism.
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The belief that bodies of water, animals, trees,
and other natural objects have
spirits.
ANIMISM
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As time passed, the people of West Africa
developed into an advanced culture.
Changes in technology helped early
communities grow.
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Around 500 BC, Western Africans found that they could
heat certain kinds of rock to get a hard metal.
IRON
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Iron tools allowed farmers to clear land faster and grow food more easily than
they could with earlier tools.
Iron was stronger
than other metals, iron was good for making tools
and
weapons.
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As Western Africa became more productive, villages had more than they
needed to survive.
This was called a SURPLUS
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West Africans began to trade the areas’ resources with buyers who lived
thousands of miles away.
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West African’ gold
and salt mines
became a source of
great wealth.
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Traders used camels to cross the Sahara.
They took gold, salt,
cloth, slaves and other items to North
Africa and the Islamic
World.
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How did religion in
West Africa reflect the
importance of family?
(ANALYZING)
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Can you also answer these questions?
A. What are two groups to which a person in early WestAfrica may have owed loyalty? (IDENTIFY)
B. How did the use of iron change farming? (ANALYZE)
C. Who made up an extended family? (IDENTIFY)
D. What role did animism play in West African culture? (ANALYZE)
E. Why were extended families and age-sets important in early West African cultures? (ELABORATE)
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Summarize how
geography, resources, culture and
trade influenced West
Africa.
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"Early African Civilizations." World History. : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing
Company, 2012. . Print.
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