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Medieval Africa

Medieval Africa. Arely Marquez Standards 7.4.3,7.4.4,7.4.5. Government. Both Rulers and People Benefit Favors Taxes Power Loyalty. Ghana’s Government. Divided into provinces Leaders District Chiefs Chiefs Clan Kings held tightly to Power. No Trade Inherited. Mali’s Government.

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Medieval Africa

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  1. Medieval Africa Arely Marquez Standards 7.4.3,7.4.4,7.4.5

  2. Government • Both Rulers and People Benefit • Favors • Taxes • Power • Loyalty

  3. Ghana’s Government • Divided into provinces • Leaders • District Chiefs • Chiefs Clan • Kings held tightly to Power. • No Trade • Inherited

  4. Mali’s Government • More Territory, People, Trade • Five Official • Fishing • Forest • Farming • Money

  5. Mansa Musa • Rewarded Citizens • Allowed Different Religion • Build Mosques, Library • Journey to Makkah

  6. Songhai’s Government • Divided into Provinces but did not finished. • Sunni Ali • Practiced Traditional Religion • Declared himself Muslim • Muhammad Tuze • Loyal Muslim • Schools

  7. Life in Medieval Africa

  8. Bantu • Traveled Slowly and Different Routes • AD 400 Settled Down in Africa • Matrilineal • Valued Children

  9. Education • Children Learned History and skills • Griots- Lesson

  10. Roles Women Men Controlled much of what women did • Acted as wives and mother • Served as soldiers • Rulers

  11. Women Ruler • Queen Dahia Al-Kahina • Fight against Muslims invasion • Queen Nzinga • 40 years battling Portugues slave traders

  12. Slavery • Within Africa • Bantu- raided nearby villages for captives • Used for laborers • Slaved Criminals or enemies • Muslim • Enslavement of Muslim forbidden • Enslave non-Muslims

  13. Slavery (cont) • European Slavery • 1441 First 12 Africans captives taken to Portugal • 1444 235 Slaves • 1500s Portugal was World’s leading supplier of Sugar

  14. African Culture

  15. Art • Cave Painting • Mask • Statues • Wood, Ivory, or Bronze

  16. Music and Dance • Religion • Get through an everyday task • Spirits to express themselves

  17. Storytelling • Record Story • Retold Stories • Repeated Stories

  18. The End

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