Sub-Saharan Africa(Chapter 8 pgs.238-261)
The Bantu dispersion
“Stateless society”
Militarism
Islam
Kingdom of Aksum (Axum)
Emperor Ezana (Constantine)
“Monophysite” Christianity
Coptic Church
Emperor Zar’a Ya’kob (Essay p. 246)
Aksum architecture
Emperor Lalibela
Stelae
“RockChurches”
Ark of the Covenant
Empires of the Western Sudan:
Kingdom of Ghana
Kingdom of Mali
Sundiata
Mansa Musa
Kingdom of Songhai
Timbuktu
Salt/Gold
Ivory/Slaves
The Swahili Coastal trade
City states vs. empires
The Great Zimbabwe
