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Dr. Deborah Barndt (Environmental Studies, York). attend up to two talks each semester our next class, hand in a two page, double spaced synopsis/analysis relate to overall questions of Global History I will grade each out of 3 – so up to 6% bonus per term. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Dr. Deborah Barndt(Environmental Studies, York)
Fire in the Belly: Igniting Popular Education with Spirit, Song and Story12:30pm - 1:15pm
Friday, Sept. 14
12:30 -1:15
Dennis Hall
Arts 4 Social Change6:30pm - 9:00pmThursday, September 13Dennis Hall
•attend up to two talks each semester• our next class, hand in a two page, double spaced synopsis/analysis• relate to overall questions of Global History • I will grade each out of 3 – so up to 6% bonus per term
Were you surprised about where the text began?
“the paradoxical result was that the world was becoming more interconnected, while its regions were becoming more differentiated”
Shaping the nature of contactCommercial connections: technology and
knowledge of the sea, wind and landmasses
political stabilityorganization
Commercial developments: commoditiesmetropolitan centers
swahili
amphora
Conclusion• revolutions at sea• societal maturity
possibilities of connectedness
and, increasing difference
Over the next few classes – examine those differences in Africa, western Asia, south Asia
The ‘Dark’ Continent?
Geography of the African Continent: impact on human societies
The Gift of the Nile
• gradual, predictable flooding• sprouting, inundation, summer
• communication:• Nubia-Egypt• current: north/Winds: south• Sub-Saharan Africa-
Mesopotamia
• increased in importance with desiccation of the Sahara
Early Agriculture
• evidence 10,000 BCE• migrants from Red Sea hills
(northern Ethiopia)• introduce collection of wild
grains, language roots Coptic
• Why does this matter?
• 5000 BCE • Sudanese cultivators and
herders migrate to Nile river valley
• adaption to seasonal flooding of Nile through construction of dikes, waterways• villages dot Nile by 4000
BCE
Bantu Migrations, 2000 B.C.E-1000 C.E.Bantu: “people”
• migration throughout sub-Saharan
regions
• 500+ variations of original Bantu
languages• 90 million speakers
• by 1000 BCE, occupied most of Africa south of the equator
• displaced other people-groups
• evidence?
20C Nyamwezi, Tanzania (1940s?)
Regional African states, c.1300
Mande, Mandinkaalso Babara and
Sarakole, Tuareg, Songhai, Doagon
peoplesGhanaMali Empire, 13C
Also note: Yoruba statesKongoEthiopiaGreat Zimbabweswahili city-states
Highly complex and sophisticated organization
Sankore Masjid, Tombouctou Evidence:oral history – griotstraveler’s accountsarchaeology
mosque, Djenne 1989
Africa in the Islamic WorldWatch terminology
Africa ↔ western Asiasouth Asiaeast Asiasoutheast Asia
Trading ↔ goldivory, hardwoods,
feathersskins, gemspeople – for work genes, marriage, ideas, beliefs
Conclusions• factors that limited connections between the continent of Africa and
the outside world • factors that allowed for connections • How do we know ?(evidence necessary/possible)
• remain important to the present: geography
• why if Egypt has been thought of as a Mediterranean civilization, why have historiansgrouped other African societies together differently?
• think about the implications for understanding belief and social organization
• Terms: swahili dhow complex societies