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Eastern City-States and Southern Empires

Eastern City-States and Southern Empires. Chapter 15. Miss. Gillece. 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

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Eastern City-States and Southern Empires

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  1. Eastern City-States and Southern Empires • Chapter 15 Miss. Gillece

  2. What can be found in this region? • Important trading cities along the east coast • Trade with Arabia, Persia and India • Farming and fishing villages

  3. Swahili Language • A language blended with Arabic and Bantu-language • 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

  4. 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

  5. Trade Goods • East African Trade, 1000 • Page 423

  6. 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

  7. Islamic Influences • Spread through trading and the enslavement of Africans by the Arab Muslim traders

  8. 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

  9. Mutapa Empire • Conquered Zimbabwe once abandoned • Founder: Mutota, who left Zimbabwe in 1420 to find salt • Strong empire

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