Please post at least two questions you have about Africa that show that you have read and thought about the material on the assigned web pages.
Please post by 6 p.m. Sunday (or email me to let me know why that's not possible, and post as soon as you can).
14 comments:
Posted by Kristen
1. What do we know about ancient African religion? Did their beliefs/religion spread with trading like Islam?
2. What technologies did Africans have?(Like how did they build a wall 36 feet high and 20 feet thick?)
What exactly was wrong with Sundiata?
How can they prove that Africa built Zimbabwe, or better yet, how can we prove that they didn't?
Posted by Mattie:
1) What was the difference between the Iron Age and the Stone Age?
2) While reading, I noticed that some things that I read about connected up with the Islam religion. What are a few significant links between Africa and Islam?
What materials did the Nok use?
Why was it that in Africa, success came with trade, whereas in most other cultures success comes with military strength?
Why would Mansa Musa give so much gold?
1. Since Africa was/is mostly an oral tradition won't things (stories) change over time because it is not written down?
2. How did they fire the clay for the Noks? How did they get it (the fire) hot enough?
3. How long did it take the Caravans to cross the Sahara?
4. They traded gold for salt. It seems that the gold would be more valuable. Why did they trade gold for salt?
5. Where in North Africa were the Berbers?
6. What was the religion before Islam in Africa?
7. Who was Ghana?
8. Since the Sahara had flies with deadly disease, and little water, how did people cross the Sahara?
9. Why did Samanguru kill the 11 brothers? Were they a threat?
10. Why did he think Sundiata would die soon?
11. How did Mansa Musa get rich?
12. Why did the leaders of Rhodesia change the name to Zimbabwe? I don't understand.
1. What exactly is the difference between the rock age and the iron age? During the iron age they used hot rocks to melt metal so what did they do during the rock age?
2. Did any of the Almoravids convert to Islam?
3. The ruins in Zimbabwe seemed to be the religious center of the city. What religion did they believe in? Was the religion still polytheistic?
1. What artifacts have we found from Ghana?
2. Did the Nok have their own language/writing? If so have we deciphered it?
1) Since trade is very important for West Africa, and they had to travel across the Sahara desert to trade, I am wondering how long it took to travel across the Sahara Desert, and what else they traded besides salt.
2) Why did Mansa Musa give away all of his gold to the people in Cairo, what was his reason for giving at all away?
1) )What happened to the gold Mansa Musa gave away? What did the people do with it?
2)why did the saying "all the way to timbuktu originate"
Posted by Zach
What was the type of ruling in ghana? Did they have a king, democracy, etc?
The reading says that the ruins at Zimbabwe were religious. What religion were they?
1. Is there a reason that their culture is primarily passed orally through storytelling? If so what is it and why?
2. What part of Africa did Mansa Musa rule? Did he rule both Mali and Songhai, os just Mali?
1) Why would Mansa Musa give away so much gold if the price was going to drop so much, where did he get the gold from?
2) Who did the Phoenicians teach their alphabet to? What made their land inhospitable?
1.From the readings, Africa seemed to be a powerful, properous, and advanced region. When and why did Europe surpass it?
2. What were some "native African" religions? Sundiata converted for trade reasons, were there other reasons that people converted at that time?
3. What was the largest African Empire, and how far did it stretch?
Was gold traded for salt because it was hot so people lost a lot of salt in their sweat?
How were people able to travel the Sahara if it was so treacherous between the threat of dehydration and desiese transmitting flies?
Where did Mansa Musa's wealth come from?
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