3. Vocabulary 3.3 Africa Diaspora- page 235 Extended families Matrilineal
Queen Dahia al-Kahina
Queen Nzinga
Oral history
Africa Diaspora- page 235

4. Vocabulary 3.3
Extended families - families made up of several generations - family was the core of African society
Matrilineal - tracing your descent through your mom rather than dad (Bantu did this)
Queen Dahia al-Kahina - led the fight against Muslim invasion of her kingdom
Queen Nzinga - battled the Portuguese slave traders in an effort to stop them from enslaving her people
Africa Diaspora - the spread of African people and culture around the world

5. Life in Medieval Africa
Main Idea:
Africa is huge but it’s people shared many common beliefs
Family was the foundation of African society. Extended families lived together (clan). It could include from 10 to 100 family members.

6. Life in Medieval Africa
Many villages, including the Bantu, traced their families through the mother (matrilineal). When a woman married she went to live with her husband’s family and husbands gave gifts like cattle, tools, goats, cloth to the wife’s family.
Children were cherished and seen as link to past and guarantee for future. Many believed ancestors could be reborn in a child.

7. Life in Medieval Africa
Education
Children learned clan history and skills from the family and other villagers. In W. Africa griots (storytellers) helped teach the village oral history by telling stories pasted on from generation to generation. Most stories had a lesson about living.

8. Life in Medieval Africa
Role of Women
Women in Africa were mostly wives and mothers with men having more rights and control over the family.
There were some exceptions - some were soldiers and some were legendary rulers
Queen Dahia al-Kahina who lead a fight against Muslim invasion and Queen Nzinga battled the Portuguese slave traders to stop them from taking her people.

9. Slavery
Main Idea:
African slave trade changed when Muslims and Europeans started taking captives from the African continent
In 1441 a Portuguese sea captain took the first African slaves to Portugal.

10. Slavery
Slavery has existed throughout the world for a long time. It did not begin with the African slave trade.
Africans had war captives that they kept as laborers (workers) but would release them for a fee. They also enslaved criminals and their enemies. These slaves could earn their freedom.

11. Slavery
The Quran forbade Muslims to enslave other Muslims so when Muslim merchants began trade with Africans they began to trade goods for non-Muslim Africans.
When Europeans came to W. Africa a new market began. Europeans gave Africans guns to raid villages to get slaves to sell. Many Europeans who first planned to sell gold from Africa quickly changed their plans and joined the slave trade.

12. Slavery
The first African slaves went to Portugal and then traveled with the Portuguese as their free labor. Portugal became the world’s leading supplier of sugar thanks to the skills and labor of African slaves.
Other Europeans followed Portugal’s example and by the late 1400s Europeans brought Africans to work the sugar, tobacco, rice and cotton plantations in America.

13. African Culture Main Idea:
African slaves developed a new culture that influenced many other cultures
When slaves were stolen from their country they took their culture with them. This is called Africa Diaspora.
Africans kept their memories and culture and passed it on from generation to generation.

14. African Culture
African art told stories or had a religious meaning or use. Cave paintings are the earliest known form of African art.
African music and dance was a part of most everyday life including religion and everyday tasks. They believed dance lets spirits express themselves.

15. African Culture
Slaves used music to remind them of their homeland. Songs of hardship became the blues and songs of hope, faith and freedom became gospel
Other forms of African based music is jazz, rock and roll and rap