Sub Saharan& West Africa

October 10, 2008
sub-Saharan Africa 



1000 B.C.- Bantu migrated around sub-Saharan Africa… spread language & iron smelting and agricultural practices 


Nubia (Kush, Meroe)
Further South on Nile from Egypt
Origins - 2500 B.C. 
References to Nubia in egyptians hieroglyphics  
Pictures of nubians in Egypt 
Trading grain for gold 


	Around 2000 B.C. 
	Egypt invades nubia

	Then around 1500 B.C. Nubia invades Egypt 

	Nubia adopts 
	Egyptian gods & Hieroglyphics 

Brief periods of written history 
Then language evolves, we can’t read it 

Politically- 
	Centralized with one king or queen 
Same religion (Polytheistic) with a few differences 
More focus on sub saharan african animals 

Priests & Temples (built pyramids) 

Divided labor between men & woman 
Grave yards men are buried together and woman and children are separately 

West Africa 
 
Between Senegal & Niger
Rivers small kingdoms
Arise 300’s & 400s AD
Ghana (500 AD - 1200 AD)