1. Ancient Africa

2. Geography of Africa Divided up by natural barriers North-Sahara Desert
Central-Rain Forest
South-Desert
East-mountains and rift valleys
In between-Savannas
Long coastline and many rivers

3. History-2/14 (1st 20 minutes)
After the 4 Rightly Guided Caliphs (Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali) spread Islam throughout the Middle East and North Africa, which Islamic Caliphate was considered the Golden Age of Islam and why?
Complete the sheet that has the Islam Cartoon on it.
Work on vocab for Africa for Unit 3.
I am coming around to check your Islam Maps.

4. The Bantu Migrations (3,000 B.C.E-1100 C.E)
The early African people south of the Sahara were iron workers
A group of people with a similar language, the Bantu, started to migrate around 3,000 B.C.E
They moved south and east spreading their culture.
Today, 1/3 of all Africans speak a form of the Bantu language.
Ex: Swahili (Arabic and Bantu mixture)

5. The Gold/Salt Trade
Arab and Berber traders began trading heavily with west African Empires
Gold and salt were the two major products
Timbuktu was the major trading city
Trans-Sahara Trade
Trade was taxed by the Empire of Ghana starting in the 700s C.E
Ghana, Mali, and Songhai got rich

6. West Africa: Ghana, Mali, and Songhai
Three West African Empires
Ghana, Mali, and Songhai
All three got rich off of the Gold/Salt Trade
Taxed trade occurring in Timbuktu and Gao.
Islam spread through trade (most before Islam were animistic)
Empire of Mali: 2 Important Leaders
Mansa Musa spread Islam after returning from Mecca
Sundiata was a great military leader and expanded the empire.
Both controlled the Gold/Salt Trade.

7. Trading Product Flyer/Ad
You are responsible for coming up with a trading product that is valuable enough or enticing enough to trade with Mansa Musa of Mali (the richest man of the ancient times).
You will be from a specific part of the world that I give to you.
On you’re the Front of your paper, you must give a title of your product, a persuasive description of why it is needed or important for Mansa Musa (4-5 sentences), and 2 pictures.
On the back, you must explain your journey to the Kingdom of Mali. You will be going to Timbuktu. Explain how you traveled to Timbuktu and how you get your supply of that product to Mali. Do you have a middle man? How much time and money do you put in obtaining this product. How many workers do you have working for you? How do you transport the product to Mali?
Draw a map of your journey to Mali.