U3S2 Quiz

Cornell Notes

9 Fact  Ibn Battuta
Ibn Battuta, a young Arab lawyer from Morocco, set out in 1325 to see the Muslim world.

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sultan

Muslim leader

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Swahili

Refers to culture and language of East Africa

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clan

Group of families related by blood or marriage

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• Most African groups
• shared belief in one supreme god

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Islam popular in Western African cities where rulers
and traders accept it by choice or
because it helped them trade with Muslim Arabs

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• Mansa Musa, leader of Mali
• Libraries at Timbuktu to collected books from Muslim world
• Pilgrimage to Makkah in 1324

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Askia Muhammad

Made Timbuktu an important center of Islamic culture and learning with a university known throughout the Muslim world
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Most successful African empires had centralized government ruled by kings or queens

Activity for Week of January 27, 2019  

Monday:

                  National Geographics:  Why We Lie (p. 46)
                  Cornell Notes U3S2 (Slide # 24 -- next)
                  Enrichment Video

                THE TRUTH ABOUT ANCIENT AFRICA 

               (AMAZING BLACK HISTORY 

                DOCUMENTARY)  - 6 mins

Tuesday:  National Geographics:  Why We Lie (p. 47)

                Cornell Notes U3S2 (Slide # 24 -- next)

                

               THE TRUTH ABOUT ANCIENT AFRICA 

               (AMAZING BLACK HISTORY 

                DOCUMENTARY)  - 35 mins

Wednesday:  National Geographics:  Why We Lie (p. 47)

                     Cornell Notes U3S2 (Slide # 26 -- next)

Thursday:  Community Meeting
                  Cornell Notes U3S2 (Slide # 27 -- next)
                U3S2 Quiz (Tuesday Feb 5)

Friday:  U3S3 Frontload (Slide #4)

Activity for Week of January 22, 2019

Monday: Holiday

Tuesday:  Front Load Vocabulary -  U3S2 (Slide #11)

Wednesday:  A Clean State video (3 mins)
                     National Geographics:  Why We Lie
                     Front Load Vocab: U3S2 (Slide #14)

Thursday:  Community Meeting
                  National Geographics:  Why We Lie
                  Front Load Vocab: U3S2 (Slide #18--done)

Cornell Notes for U3S1


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Sunni Ali

• Leader of Songhai
• Built the largest empire in West Africa

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Plateau

an area of high flat land

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griot

storytellers

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dhow

sailboat that allowed Arab traders to sail to Africa

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• Niger River in west Africa
• Rich shoal
• Rise to several civilizations
• Merchants and travelers spread goods and ideas

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Bantu

• Began wandering throughout Africa
• Called themselves Bantu meaning “the people”
• Bantu settle most of Africa

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In 400 BC, North African people called the Berbers found a way across Sahara to West Africa and began trade

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• For traders to meet, they had to pass through Ghana
• Passage require a fee that made Ghana rich

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In 1200s, kingdom of Mali conquered what was left of Ghana

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• When Europeans arrived, traders from Benin and Kongo met ships
• These traders also traded captives taken in war

Maps

Copy map on page 207

Copy map on page 208

Copy map on page 209

Copy map on page 211

Activity for Week of Jauary 14, 2019

Monday: Sub - Independence Work

Tuesday: U31 CN (Slide #43)
Reading page 217 of textbook
  HW: Trade Routes of North Africa
Copy map on page 211

Wednesday: Quiz for U3S1 on Friday (Jan 18)

Thursday: Independent Work
- Cornell Notes
- Study for quiz
- Unit Project

Friday: U3S1 Quiz

Unit/Chapter 3 Project

1. Construction Paper
2. Fold into 4 boxes (Orientation can be portrait or landscape)
3. Label each box/quadrant with a title from below (4 different titles)
1. Africa’s Geography (p. 207-208)
2. African Trading Empires (p. 209-214)
3. Traditional African Religions (p. 223)
4. Islam in Africa (p. 224-227)
5. Government and Society (p. 227-229)
6. Life in Medieval Africa (p. 231)
7. Slavery (p. 233-234)
8. African Culture (p. 235-237)
   1. Below are the next steps....
   2. Draw pictures for blue titles of the red title
   3. Label pictures with blue titles  
   4. Additional caption for blue title is appreciated especially if the picture needs clarification
   5. Minimum of 3 pictures in case of multiple blue titles
   6. Each section must have 3 pictures!!!
   7. Due on Test Dayor each quadrant

Activity for Week of January 7, 2019

Monday:  Unit 3 Vocabulary  Frontload (Slide #17)

Tuesday: Unit/Chapter 3 Project given
                Due at the end of the chapter
                There will be no Unit/Chapter test... only section test

Wednesday: U31 CN (Slide #25)
                     HW: Copy map on page 207
Geography and
Climate Zones in Africa

Thursday: U31 CN (Slide #26)
HW: Comparing Africa to the U.S.
Copy map on page 208

Friday: U31 CN (Slide #36)
Bantu Migration Map (page 209)