Regional Outline for: Sub-Saharan Africa



Regional Outline for: Sub-Saharan Africa

| |8000 – 600 CE |600 – 1450 CE |1450-1750 CE |1750 – 1914 CE |1914 - Present |

|Politics |Pharaoh/queen (living incarnation of |Kingship legitimized by Islam, |leaders cooperated with slave |Re-colonization of Africa; Sierra |Decolonization of Africa; attempt at |

| |sun god), internal disorder, |‘People of The Book’, Bantu |traders; monarchy |Leone, Liberia ; coastal kingdoms |representative government; involved |

| |invasions (900 BCE), irrigation |(stateless societies) | |ruled by warlords/merchants; |in WWII; renewed independence |

| | | | |intertribal war; Revolutions; |efforts( civil war, government |

| | | | |White Man’s Burden |corruption; socialism |

|Economy |Trade with Kush and Mesopotamia, |Trade, with Islam as unifying factor,|Triangular Trade/ Trans-Atlantic |End of Atlantic Slave Trade( Islamic |Globalized economies; mercantilism in|

| |agricultural villages engaged in |trans-Saharan trade routes; Ghana |Slave Trade; guns traded for slaves; |states of West Africa still trade |former colonies; poverty stricken |

| |trade. |(gold), Mali; gold, salt, honey, |slave trade with Mediterranean world |slaves; rely on slave trade more; |countries; international debt |

| | |slaves, ivory, imports, trade with | |economic slump | |

| | |Byzantine Empire, agriculture | | | |

|Social Class/Gender |Patriarchal, but women manage |Merchants valued; patriarchal |Demographic shifts; more males in the|Rapid population growth |Spanish Flu (global epidemic); clear |

| |household, own property, regents of |society, rich women more restricted; |slave trade than females (females | |black majority making decolonization |

| |rulers, priestesses, scribes, can |Islamic law, ‘People of the Book’, |traded more in the East coast); | |easier (apartheid in South Africa) |

| |divorce, high priest class |religious tolerance, class centered |depopulated | | |

| | |around age group | | | |

|Science/Inventions |Hieroglyphics, bronze tools, papyrus,|Hellenistic thought, science/math |manioc, maize, sweet potatoes (from |Industrialization; guns, textiles, |Slow technological development due to|

| |365 day calendar, medicine, math, | |America); technology suffered due to |alcohol (importance of foreign |colonization, mercantilism, internal |

| |astronomy, iron | |slave trade |imports); Enlightenment |instability; miners; no money for |

| | | | | |industrial goods after WWI; oil |

| | | | | |(Nigeria) |

|Art/Architecture |Pyramids, temples, hieroglyphics |Linguistic, architectural, artistic |Islamic art/architecture, paper |Christian/ Islamic arts ; literary/ |Western artistic forms, religious |

| | |version of Christianity; calligraphy,|making; arts suffered due to slave |artistic forms of the west |art, native art (export) |

| | |Mosques, minarets |trade | | |

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|Empire |Geography—protected, unique |Islamic urban center, Bantu |Part of Triangular Trade (with Europe|Open to foreign takeover due to |Decolonization( new sovereign nations|

| |civilization, not as urban as |Migrations, trade centers, |and America); beginnings of European |economic slump; colonized by Europe | |

| |Mesopotamia, Nile river |Trans-Saharan trade route |exploration ; Kongo, Benin, Mali, | | |

| | | |Songhay | | |

|Religion |Polytheism , afterlife |Islam , Christianity in Ethiopia and |Islam, Christianity, animism, |Islam, Christianity, animism, |Islam, Christianity, animism, |

| |(mummification), Book of the Dead |Egypt, animistic, syncretism, |ancestor worship(syncretism |ancestor worship(syncretism |atheists |

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