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CHAPTERS 15 16 AFRICA and the AMERICAS in the
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1st period GROUPS Group 1 Justin, Jennifer,
Chris Group 2 Patricia, Carlos, Candido Group
3 Brittaney, Adrian, Cecilia Group 4 Josh,
James, Omar Group 5 Erik, Marisela,
Jonathan Group 6 Catheryn, Mario, Dylan Group
7 Richard, Junior, Roxanne, Corinne
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ATTENTION Pre-A.P World History classes
PROJECT II is due Friday. No
Exceptions! Please come to see me if you have
questions about your sources, how to do M.L.A.
citations correctly, etc. Im here every morning
at 820 a.m. !!!
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CH. 15, Sec. 2 Objectives Explain how
hunting-gathering societies are
organized. Describe how a stateless society is
governed.
The Igbo of todays Nigeria are an example of a
stateless society. They are known for masquerades
during their Iko Okochi harvest festival. These
masks are from such a masquerade festival.
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CH. 15, Sec. 1 Objective Summarize the
effects the arrival of Islam had in creating
Muslim states in west Africa.
The town of Jenne (Djenne) was founded between
800 and 1250 A.D. The city became an important
site of Islamic religion and scholarship. The
city's first Islamic king, Koi Konboro,
constructed its first Great Mosque, of adobe, in
the thirteenth century. Although the original
structure no longer stands, this remarkable adobe
mosque shown above was rededicated in its place
around 19067.
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CH. 15, Sec. 2 Objective Explain how the
gold-salt trade led to the rise of Ghana.
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CH. 15, Sec. 2 Objective Describe how
Sundiata advanced Mali.
The griots of West Africa still tell the 700 year
old story of a sickly boy named Sundiata, who
grew up to become a great warrior, expelled a
brutal warrior, and united the Mandinka people.
In 1235. Sundiata became mansa, or king, of a new
empire that we know today as Mali. Mali means
where the king resides. Sundiata proved
himself a great warrior, but he was less
interested in power than in once again making
West Africa a safe place to travel and trade. He
converted to Islam, but only as a gesture of
goodwill to the merchants and traders. To his own
people, Sundiata presented himself as a champion
of traditional West African religion. bv
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CH. 15, Sec. 2 Objective Describe how Mansa
Musa advanced Mali.
Mansa Musa captured the attention of the Arab
world when he left his home in the West African
kingdom of Mali to make a pilgrimage to Mecca in
1324. Unlike his grandfather Sundiata, Mansa Musa
was a devout Muslim and like all faithful Muslims
made a hajj, or holy visit, to the city of Mecca.
Mansa Musa was a very rich king. He was said to
have taken more than 500 people with him on the
hajj, each carrying a staff of solid gold. The
appearance of a wealthy king from a faraway land
made a deep impression on the people he
encountered, causing Mali to appear on maps
throughout the Middle East and Europe. For the
first time, sub-Saharan Africa became well known
north of the Sahara Desert for the first time.
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CH. 15, Sec. 3 Objectives Describe the role
of east-coast trading cities in the economy of
East Africa. Identify Great Zimbabwe.
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CH. 15, Sec. 3 Objective Identify Great
Zimbabwe.
The first whispered reports of a fabulous stone
palace in the heart of southern Africa began
dribbling into the coastal trading ports of
Mozambique in the 1500s. In his 1552 Da Asia,
the most complete chronicle of the Portuguese
conquests, João de Barros wrote of "a square
fortress, masonry within and without, built of
stones of marvelous size, and miraculously there
appears to be no mortar joining them."
One of the eight soapstone bird sculptures found
at Great Zimbabwe.
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CH. 16, Sec. 1 Objective Describe various
regional cultures of pre-Columbian North
America.
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CH. 16, Sec. 1 Objective Describe various
regional cultures of pre-Columbian North America.
Perhaps in a response to Mesoamerican influences
from Mexico, the Anasazi began to turn away from
the nomadism of ancient hunting-gathering life
and the material poverty imposed by the
limitations of what nomads can carry on their
backs. They began living in small hamlets. They
broke the land and took up agriculture. Over
time, they acquired more possessions, stored
food, made pottery, adopted the bow and arrow,
domesticated dogs and turkeys. The Anasazi left
their mark on a grand scale, through the
construction of perhaps the most stunning
prehistoric communities in North America like
these at Mesa Verde. The Anasazi would prove be
resourceful, adaptable and, ultimately, the most
enduring of the Pueblo cultural traditions.
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CH. 16, Sec. 1 Objective Describe various
regional cultures of pre-Columbian North America.
About 1390, today's State of New York became the
stronghold of five powerful Indian tribes.
Eventually the Iroquois, Mohawks, Oneidas,
Onondagas, and Cayugas joined together to form
the great Iroquois Nation, or Iroquois League.
The Iroquois used animal skins, mostly elk, deer,
bear and racoon to make their clothing. They
adorned their clothing with feathers and beads
and they also tatooed themselves.
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http//www.ancientmexico.com/index.html
MAYA
AZTEC
ZAPOTEC
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CH. 16, Sec. 2 Objective Describe key
features of the Mayan civilization.
This altar at Chichen Itza (near Cancun, Mexico)
is carved with lines of human skulls. Human
sacrifice was practiced by the Maya but not near
the extreme as it was practiced by the Aztec.
Left A view of El Castillo (also known as the
Temple of Kukulcan) from the top of The Snake
Columned Temple.
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CH. 16, Sec. 3 Objective Describe early
cultures of the Valley of Mexico such as
Teotihuacan and Toltec.
Aztec Pyramid of the Sun Teotihuacan, Mexico.
Above The Pyramid of the Sun viewed from the
north. This massive structure is the largest
pyramid in Mesoamerica and has a larger base than
the Great Pyramid in Egypt. Teotihuacan had a
population of up to 200,000 people by 900 A.D.
This made the city one of the largest urban
centers in the world. (Paris at this time had a
population of 75,000).
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CH. 16, Sec. 3 Objective Explain the rise of
the Aztecs and their creation of an Empire in the
Valley of Mexico.
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CH. 16, Sec. 3 Objective Characterize the
main features of Aztec religion.
Tenochtitlan Ruins, Mexico City
A reconstruction of the Sacred Precinct in the
center of Tenochtitlan on the eve of the Spanish
conquest in the 1500s. Tenochtitlan was the
political and spiritual center of the Aztecs. The
Pyramid of Tlaloc, the rain god, and
Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec tribal god, dominated
the center of the Plaza. Here mass human
sacrifice was commonplace.
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CH. 16, Sec. 3 Objective Identify factors
that led to the decline of the Aztecs.
An artist imagines the scene as Cortez stands on
the causeway bridge leading to Tenochtitlan
preparing to meet the Aztec ruler, Moctezuma.
Standing beside Cortez is Dona Marina (the
controversial young woman who assisted the
Spanish). If only the encounter between the two
cultures had been as peaceful and respectful as
depicted here. It was not.
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CH. 16, Sec. 4 Objective Describe the Inca
rise to power in South
America.
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CH. 16, Sec. 4 Objective Describe how the
Incan government functioned.
The Incan system of government was based on
patterns of community cooperation. Small groups
of people known as ayllu worked together for the
common good. Textbook, p. 408
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CH. 16, Sec. 4 Objective Describe the discord
in the Inca Empire prior to the Spanish conquest.
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