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Extended Families
Families made up of several generations
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Matrilineal
Family traces their descent through mothers rather than fathers
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Oral History
Stories passed down by word of mouth from generation to generation
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The belief in one supreme god formed the basis of African society.
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Before European arrived, slave trade with Islam merchants increased
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- In 1444 Portuguese ship docked at a Portuguese port
- Sailors unloaded 255 enslaved Africans
- This is the first European country to participate in African slave trade
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- Portuguese
- Climate perfect for cotton,grapes, and sugarcane on plantations
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- By late 1400s, Europeans
- Also enslaved for tobacco, rice and cotton
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- African Diasporo
- Spreading of African people and culture around the worlds
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Earliest African art are cave paintings
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Kente is brightly colored cloth of West Africa
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Enslaved Africans sometimes relied on music to remind them of their homeland
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African also kept alive their storytellings tradition
