WHAP Ch 15

1. WHAP Ch 15 2011 year of dragon chin new year song

2. Overfield Assignment • Due by Friday • Ibn Battuta • A Donation to Those interested in Curiosities • Pages 445-450 • In 2 pages, include answers for all 6 “Questions for Analysis” section p. 446

3. Ch 15 Tropical Africa and Asia 1200-1500 • Tropical Lands and People’s traits • New Islamic Empires develop • Indian Ocean Trade expands • Social and Cultural Changes caused by integration

5. Tropical Africa and Asia • The monsoon season lasts from April to August. • Influences rainy and dry seasons • The weather plays a big factor in how civilizations developed. • “Geographic Determinism”

6. Center of the tropic zone is the equator

7. Tropics • By 1200 human migration spreads bananas, yams and cocoyams • Iron – the most abundant metal worked in the tropics

8. Forms of Agriculture • Shifting Cultivation - Type of agriculture used in Sub-Saharan Africa. • Also called slash and burn • Irrigation – Greatest network belonged to Delhi Sultanate 14-19th century.

9. Forms of Agriculture • Irrigation – Greatest network belonged to India • Delhi Sultanate 14-19th century.

10. Vietnam, Java, Malaya and Burma • Developed terraced hillsides for agriculture and careful water control projects to provide year round irrigation for crops.

11. West Africa

12. Turaeg people • Western Saharan pastoralists and trans-Saharan caravan guides • Largest concentration of pastoralists in world was in northeastern Africa and Arabia. • Ibn Battuta traveled on a two month journey across the Sahara led by Turaeg guides.

13. These are Turaegs

14. Volkswagen named a car after the Turaegs.

15. Muhammad ibn Battuta • Muslim scholar who traveled extensively through the Islamic world. • He documented his travels in a diary that gives us a good history of civilization at that time.

18. Mali • Malinke legends say founder of Mali was Sundiata • Son of the king of Mali in the time of the great trading empires of Africa in the 1200’s • As a boy, Sundiata was unable to speak or walk. He overcame these obstacles, but was driven into exile by a rival queen. When Mali was overrun by intruders, 18-year-old Sundiata returned to defeat them and reclaim the throne.

19. Mansa Kankan Musa • Most famous ruler of Mali in North Africa(r.1312-1337). • Arabs called Africa “bilad al-sudan”- the land of the blacks.

20. Mansa Musa • Established trade empire from West Africa to Saudi Arabia • Gold and copper main trade items with north African Muslim traders. • Timbuktu capital city

21. Mansa Musa traveled to Mecca to demonstrate the wealth of his country. • Entourage included wife • 500 ladies in waiting • Slaves • 60,000 porters • Camels loaded with 80 packages of gold each weighing 122 ozs.

22. 500 slaves each carried a golden staff. • Mansa Musa gave away so much gold, the value of it was depressed for years!

23. Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage • resulted in: • Spread of Islam within his empire • Building mosques, libraries and Quranic schools.

24. Islam • Empires of Mali in West Africa and Delhi in South Asia will use Islamic Administration • Religion spread through gradual and peaceful process of conversion.- except in India

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