Cornell Notes for U3 Section 3 African Society and Culture


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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