Sub-Saharan Africa
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Politics: 8000-600 CE | Pharaoh/queen (living incarnation of sun god), internal disorder, invasions (900 BCE), irrigation |
| Politics: 600-1450 CE | Kingship legitimized by Islam, 'People of The Book', Bantu (stateless societies) |
| Politics: 1450-1750 CE | leaders cooperated with slave traders; monarchy |
| Politics: 1750-1914 CE | Re-colonization of Africa; Sierra Leone, Liberia; coastal kingdoms ruled by warlords.merchants; intertribal war; Revolutions; White Man's Burden |
| Politics: 1914-Present | Decolonization of Africa; attempt at representative government; involved in WWII; renewed independence efforts --> civil war, government corruption; socialism |
| Economy: 8000-600 CE | Trade with Kush and Mesopotamia, agricultural villages engaged in trade |
| Economy: 600-1450 CE | Trade, with Islam as unifying factor, trans-Saharan trade routes; Ghana (gold), Mali; gold, salt, honey, slaves, ivory, imports, trade with Byzantine Empire, agriculture |
| Economy: 1450-1750 CE | Triangular Trade/ Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade; guns traded for slaves; slave trade with Mediterranean world |
| Economy: 1750-1914 CE | End of Atlantic Slave Trade --> Islamic states of West Africa still trade slaves; rely on slave trade more; economic slump |
| Economy: 1914-Present | Globalized economies; mercantilism in former colonies; poverty stricken countries; international debt |
| Social/Class Gender: 8000-600 CE | Patriarchal, but women manage household, own property, regents of rulers, priestesses, scribes, can divorce, high priests class |
| Social/Class Gender: 600-1450 CE | Merchants valued; patriarchal society, rich women more restricted; Islamic law, 'People of the Book', religious tolerance, class centered around age group |
| Social/Class Gender: 1450-1750 CE | Demographic shifts; more males in the slave trade than females (females traded more in the East coast); depopulated |
| Social/Class Gender: 1750-1914 CE | Rapid population growth |
| Social/Class Gender: 1914-Present | Spanish Flu (global epidemic); clear black majority making decolonization easier (apartheid in South Africa) |
| Science/Inventions: 8000-600 CE | Hieroglyphics, bronze tools, papyrus, 365 day calendar, medicine, math, astronomy, iron |
| Science/Inventions: 600-1450 CE | Hellenistic thought, science/math |
| Science/Inventions: 1450-1750 CE | Islamic art/architecture, paper making; arts suffered due to slave trade |
| Science/Inventions: 1750-1914 CE | Industrialization; guns, textiles, alcohol (importance of foreign imports); Enlightenment |
| Science/Inventions: 1914-Present | Slow technological development due to colonization, mercantilism, internal instability; miners; no money for industrial goods after WWI; oil (Nigeria) |
| Art/Architecture: 8000-600 CE | Pyramids, temples, hieroglyphics |
| Art/Architecture: 600-1450 CE | Linguistic, architectural, artistic version of Christianity; calligraphy, Mosques, minarets |
| Art/Architecture: 1450-1750 CE | Islamic art/architecture, paper making; arts suffered due to slave trade |
| Art/Architecture: 1750-1914 CE | Christian/Islamic arts; literary/artistic forms of the west |
| Art/Architecture: 1914-Present | Western artistic forms, religious art, native art (export) |
| Empire: 8000-600 CE | Geography--protected, unique civilization, not as urban as Mesopotamia, Nile river |
| Empire: 600-1450 CE | Islamic urban center, Bantu Migrations, trade centers, Trans-Saharan trade route |
| Empire: 1450-1750 CE | Part of Triangular Trade (with Europe and America); beginnings of European exploration; Kongo, Benin, Mali, Songhay |
| Empire: 1750-1914 CE | Open to foreign takeover due to economic slump; colonized by Europe |
| Empire: 1914-Present | Decolonization --> new sovereign nations |
| Religion: 8000-600 CE | Polytheism, afterlife (mummification), Book of the Dead |
| Religion: 600-1450 CE | Islam, Christianity in Ethiopia and Egypt, animistic, syncretism |
| Religion: 1450-1750 CE | Islam, Christianity, animism, ancestor worship --> syncretism |
| Religion: 1750-1914 CE | Islam, Christianity, animism, ancestor worship --> syncretism |
| Religion: 1914-Present | Islam, Christianity, animism, atheists |
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