1. Bantu Migration – Station 1 The Bantu migration went from 2000BC to 1000 AD. It started in West Africa and went to South Africa. There were two different routes used to spread their culture and language, eastern and western.

2. Slave Trade – Station 2

3. Triangular Trade – Station 2 10% went to North America 40% went to the Caribbean 50% went to South America

4. Slave Trade/Triangular Trade Info – Station 2 Describes when people were forced to move out of Africa (emigration) as enslaved persons. Note: slavery existed before this. – African nations would already sell slaves to other empires, they didn’t see a difference selling them to the Europeans Occurred because Europeans wanted slaves for their plantations (large farms) in the Americas. This caused a major decline in the presence of traditional African kingdoms. HINT

5. Animism – Station 3 Animism is a traditional system of belief in which people give religious meaning to nature and things in nature such as all animals and living things having a spirit. This is still a common religion within the continent of Africa.

6. Animism – Station 3

7. Islam in Africa – Station 4 Map #1

8. Islam in Africa – Station 4 Map #2 ISLAM SPREAD ALONG TRADE ROUTES. THIS CONTRIBUTED TO CULTURAL CONVERGENCE IN NORTH AFRICA. Write this on your notes!

9. Islam in Africa – Station 4 Monotheistic religion (one god) Based on teachings of prophet Muhammad Belief in the five pillars – Daily prayers – Fasting during Ramadan – Belief in one god, Allah – Pilgrimage to Mecca – Almsgiving (charity)

10. Egypt and the Nile River – Station 5

11. Egypt and the Nile – Station 5

12. The Nile River made possible the existence of the great civilizations of ancient Egypt. The river flooded at roughly the same time every year, providing the people with water and rich soil for their crops. Movement influenced ancient Egypt and the Nile Valley. Egyptian ideas about farming, the building of their cities, and their system of writing may have come from the Mesopotamians, who lived in what is now Southwest Asia. Trade and travel on the Nile River, Mediterranean Sea and Red Seas, and overland trade routes helped spread those practices. YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS

13. Trading Empires – Station 6

14. Included empires of: – Ghana (800 AD – 1000s) – Mali (1235 – 1400) – Songhai (1400 – 1591) Main goods traded: salt and gold Empires grew rich from trade