Africa

Africa

What I know about Africa

What I want to learn About Africa

What I learned about Africa

AfricaGeography

In The News Today

AfricaClimate: As many would like to believe the continent of Africa is not all about thick jungles.

Do Now/ TTYN: Examine the map provided in your notes packet, identify the variety of features that occupy 1/5 of all Earth’s land surface- Africa.

Movement: As we have already learned, the movement of people and goods has a definite impact of the development of civilizations.

Do Now/ TTYN: Referring again to your notes packet, identify how geography has affected the development of the continent Africa. Be sure to identify specific geographical attributes such as mountains, rivers, deserts, etc…

AfricaGeography

AfricaGeography

Natural Resources: Since ancient times, Africa’s mineral wealth has spurred trade and has promoted Africa’s rich diversity.

Do Now: Explain in your own wordsand in complete sentences how Africa’s mineral wealth may havecontributed to Cultural Diffusion.

AfricaMigration and Civilizations

First Civilizations: Stone Age Cultures

Do Now: Describe the Neolithic Revolution

Similar to the first civilizations that we have already learned about, Africa is no different - from Hunter and Gatherers to permanent villages that eventually supported great civilizations.

The Sahara: Climate has and continues to impact Africa. The process of desertification has slowly devoured thousands of acres of cropland each year.

AfricaMigration and Civilizations

The Bantu

Who were the Bantu’s?

The term Bantu refers to group of people who speak the same or similar language with common word “NTU” which means a person.

Bantu is the African root language

AfricaMigration and Civilizations

AfricaMigration and Civilizations

The Bantu•With the development of the iron blade, reaping became easier for the bantu peopleand agriculture took on a whole new meaning.

•Populations grew faster than before and people were encroaching on each other's land. Encroachment necessitated an enlargement of territory, which led to the migration of African black tribes from the Great Lakes in central Africa, to the south of Africa.  •Bantu Migration was one of the largest human migrations in history. A linguistically related group of about 60 million people originating in west and equatorial Africa, gradually migrating down the continent into southern Africa