Miss. Gillece

Eastern City-States and Southern Empires

Chapter 15

What can be found in this region?

Important trading cities along the east coast

Trade with Arabia, Persia and India

Farming and fishing villages

Swahili Language

A language blended with Arabic and Bantu-language

1. Tungo ni safi nzuri, ahsantuuUtunzi huna dosari, wewe juuWaenda njema safari, ya majuuHassani wewe hodari, ni mkuu

Beti zanukia wazi, karafuuTwafurahia ujuzi, ulio juuFuraha kubwa azizi, sikukuuMkono wenye pongezi, shika huu -A Bakk

New goods on the East Coast

New goods brought by the Persians from other places (porcelain bowls from China and cloth from India)

Africans traded- ivory, gold, tortoiseshells, leopard skins and rhinoceros horns

Trade Goods East African Trade, 1000

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Origin Raw Materials Products Made

Savanna Region Leopard Skins Saddles

Coastal Region Tortoiseshells Combs

Southern AfricaGold from

minesCoins, Jewlery

Savanna RegionIvory from Elephants

Chess pieces, sword hilts

The City-State of Kilwa

The most wealthy and powerful coastal city-state

By controlling Sofala and the overseas trade of gold from South Africa

Islamic Influences

Spread through trading and the enslavement of Africans by the Arab Muslim traders

Great Zimbabwe

An empire built on the gold trade

Controlled the trade route from the gold to the city of Sofala

Mystery: No one knows why abandoned, theory is that they ran out of grasslands

Mutapa Empire

Conquered Zimbabwe once abandoned

Founder: Mutota, who left Zimbabwe in 1420 to find salt

Strong empire