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Ty Lowry

11/2/2024

Module 3 Assignment

Video 1: Lost Kingdoms of Africa: West Africa

Africa was the first country to be founded and made into a country. They've been finding a

range of artefacts and nationalities from Africa for over the last several years. Without any

records for over years, but has been preserved for years. Objects revealed many areas around

the world and came from once known civilizations and are over 1000 years old. Many

designs were from years ago and were famous to architects that found them. Would need to

mould and melt metal to get the look that they wanted from the design of their art. Never

matched the Europeans view and the design of their art. Many of the kingdoms were

revealed. Wanted to know why they were famous and so significant. Many layers of

meaning.

Video 2: Lost Kingdoms of Africa: Great Zimbabwe

The African continent is home to nearly a billion people. It has an incredible diversity of

communities and cultures, yet we know less of its history than almost anywhere else on earth.

But that is beginning to change. In the last few decades, researchers and archaeologists have

begun to uncover a range of histories as impressive and extraordinary as anywhere else in the

world. Great Zimbabwe has been a source of fascination and controversy ever since, a

symbol of African genius and a fascinating insight into the empires which once dominated

southern Africa. Casely-Hayford goes in search of the roots of this immense kingdom. He

traces the trade in gold and precious goods that sustained it and uncovers the kingdoms that

grew up around it.


Video 3: The Story of Nubia

Nubians lived along the Nile which curved northward through the desert. Farmers grew

grains, peas, lentils, dates, and possibly melons. But especially important were their herds of

cattle, a measure of wealth and social status. Nubians mined carnelian and gold, as well as

other mineral resources. Bartering cattle, gold, carnelian, ivory, animal skins, hardwood,

incense, and dates, Nubians traded with the Egyptians, their neighbours to the north, for

grain, vegetable oils, wine, beer, linen, and other manufactured goods. Nubia comes from

archaeological excavation and from the study of monuments and rock art found there. But the

art and writing of Nubians and of peoples contemporary with them also give important

evidence.

Video 4: Axumite Kingdom: Rise and Fall of an Empire

The kingdom of Aksum arose in Ethiopia during the first century C.E. This wealthy African

civilization thrived for centuries, controlling a large territorial state and access to vast trade

routes linking the Roman Empire to the Middle East and India. Aksum, the capital city, was a

metropolis with a peak population as high as 20,000. Aksum was also noteworthy for its

elaborate monuments and written script, as well as for introducing the Christian religion to

the rest of sub-Saharan Africa. Aksum was situated in the highlands of northern Ethiopia, in a

region called Tigray, near present-day Eritrea. Humans had inhabited the region and the

valleys below since the Stone Age, and agrarian communities had been there for at least a

millennium.
Reading 1: The Story of Africa

The contact between the East African coast and Arabia, Persia and even China goes back

long before Islam came in the 8th century. Greeks and Romans called the area Azania.

Arguably coastal Africans were closer to the people of Arabia and the Gulf of Persia than to

African societies in the central interior. The Coast of East Africa has had a long history of

trade, involving constant exchanges of ideas, style and commodities for well over two

thousand years. Marriage between women of Africa and men of the Middle East created and

cemented a rich Swahili culture, fusing urban and agricultural communities, rich in

architecture, textiles, and food, as well as purchasing power.

Reading 2: The Empires of the Western Sudan: Mali Empire

Soso was short-lived, their momentary dominance set the stage for the emergence of a greater

empire whose struggle is still commemorated in thriving oral traditions. In the early thirteenth

century, the exiled prince Sundiata Keita led a Mande revolt against the powerful Soso king

Sumanguru Kante that marked the ascension of the Mali empire. A real historical personage

and a cultural hero, Sundiata’s rise to power is still celebrated in the Mande-speaking world

by jalis often translated as “griots”. Individuals who inherited and acquired special

knowledge about history, genealogies, and music, jalis have historically performed a variety

of social and political roles and continue to do so today. Their praise songs, now aired over

television and radio in addition to live performance, are an important component of

contemporary weddings and religious and national holidays.


Reading 3: The Hausa Kingdom

Hausa states began to develop in the Sahel around 500–700 AD. Seven principal city-states

emerged: Biram, Daura, Gobir, Katsina, Kano, Rano, and Zaria and they developed close

trading relationships and economic cooperation. Hausa legend claims that a man named

Bayajidda, an Arab prince who travelled to the Sahel from Baghdad, was the forefather of the

Hausa. He killed a monstrous snake that oppressed the people of Daura, and he married the

queen. The queen had six sons already, and she produced another son with Bayajidda, and

each of these sons ruled one of the seven Hausa city-states, becoming the first kings. The

combined kingdoms of Hausaland were sometimes called the Daura, since Daura is the place

where Bayajidda supposedly founded the Hausa people.

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