Ch 15 Societies and Empires of Africa, 800-1500. World History: Patterns of Interaction

2. Aksum
Djenne-Djeno 300-700 CE
250 BCE Queen of Sheba
banks of a Niger River tributary Int’l trade
50,000 ppl Adulis on coast; Aksum
inland
Ezana converts
Falls to Islam in 710 CE
Djenne-
Djeno Nok Aksum
Nok culture
500 - 200 BCE
first iron-smelting
Bantu migrations
500 BCE - 1500 CE
searching for new, fertile soil
iron-tipped weapons in territorial wars

3. Ch 15
Societies &
Empires of Africa
800-1500

4. Students should be able to
1. Describe how a stateless society is
run
2. Explain the effects of Islam in North
and East Africa
3. Explain how the gold-salt trade led
to the rise of Ghana
4. Identify and explain the significance
of Great Zimbabwe

5. Stateless societies have no
centralized system of government.
Authority is distributed among the
elders of a clan or family - for
example, the Igbo of southern Nigeria

6. By the 700s, Islamic warriors had
spread their religion across the
Maghrib, imposing their faith and
laws.
The Berbers, a nomadic tribe of the
Sahara, converted.
In the 1000s an Islamic brotherhood
known as the Almoravids began
conquering in west Africa.
In the mid-1100s a reform movement,
known as the Almohads came to power

7. 15.2 & 15.3
West, East, and
South African
Societies

8. By 800, Ghana had become an empire,
conquering neighboring societies.
Ghana became wealthy trading gold
from the forests for salt from the
desert.
In 1076 the Almoravids conquered
Ghana

9. 1235, the kingdom of Mali rises to
prominence, led by Sundiata
Mansa Musa extends Mali’s rule
Glorified Timbuktu
Travels of Ibn Batuta

10. Founded by Tuaregs in the 11th
century where “the camel met the
canoe”

11. Founded by Tuaregs in the 11th
century where “the camel met the
canoe”

12. Founded by Tuaregs in the 11th
century where “the camel met the
canoe”

13. Founded by Tuaregs in the 11th
century where “the camel met the
canoe”

14. Founded by Tuaregs in the 11th
century where “the camel met the
canoe”

15. Went on his Hajj when he was 20, but
ended up traveling for 29 years,
covering 75,000 miles on foot, camel,
and boat, and visiting 44 different
modern countries.

16. Went on his Hajj when he was 20, but
ended up traveling for 29 years,
covering 75,000 miles on foot, camel,
and boat, and visiting 44 different
modern countries.

17. Great
Zimbabwe

18. Great Zimbabwe,
1000-1400

19. Great Zimbabwe,
1000-1400

20. Great Zimbabwe,
1000-1400

21. Great Zimbabwe,
1000-1400

22. Built by the Shona, a pastoralist
people.
The surrounding area was over-
grazed and over-farmed; the land
became depleted of nutrients and had
to be abandoned.