CHAPTERS 15 & 16 AFRICA and the AMERICAS in the Middle Ages PP Design of T. Loessin; Akins High School Your Completed Packet Is DUE WEDNESDAY first thing.

CHAPTERS 15 & 16

AFRICA and the AMERICAS

in the Middle Ages

PP Design of T. Loessin; Akins High School

Your Completed PacketIs DUE WEDNESDAY first thing in class…

NO EXCEPTIONS !

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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

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.

I’m here every morning at 8:20 a.m. !!!

The Igbo of today’s 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.

CH. 15, Sec. 2: Objectives:

Explain how hunting-gathering societies are organized.

Describe how a stateless society is governed.


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 1906–7.

CH. 15, Sec. 1: Objective:

Summarize the effects the arrival of Islam had in creating Muslim states in west Africa.



Explain how the gold-salt trade led to the rise of Ghana.



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

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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.


Describe how Mansa Musa advanced Mali.



CH. 15, Sec. 3: Objectives:

Describe the role of east-coast trading cities in the economy of East Africa.

Identify Great Zimbabwe.

One of the eight soapstone bird sculptures found at 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." PP Design of T. Loessin; Akins High School


Identify Great Zimbabwe.

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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 grandscale, 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.

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.




AZTEC

MAYA

ZAPOTEC

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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. PP Design of T. Loessin; Akins High School

CH. 16, Sec. 2: Objective: Describe key features of the Mayan civilization.


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). PP Design of T. Loessin; Akins High School

Aztec Pyramid of the Sun; Teotihuacan, Mexico.

CH. 16, Sec. 3:

Objective: Describe early cultures of the Valley of Mexico such as Teotihuacan and Toltec.

CH. 16, Sec. 3:

Objective: Explain the rise of the Aztecs and their creation of an Empire in the Valley of Mexico.


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.

CH. 16, Sec. 3:

Objective: Characterize the main features of Aztec religion.


Tenochtitlan Ruins, Mexico City

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.

CH. 16, Sec. 3:

Objective: Identify factors that led to the decline of the Aztecs.



CH. 16, Sec. 4:

Objective: Describe the Inca rise to power in South America.

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


CH. 16, Sec. 4:

Objective: Describe the discord in the Inca Empire prior to the Spanish conquest.

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