Day 16 Africa 0-600

Central Africa

• Major Bantu Expansion c. 200 – 900. Process moved slowly but steadily

• Largest Language group in Africa

• Canoe allowed people to move down the Congo and Niger river.

and East Africa

• C. 250 Axum (Ethiopia) controls Red Sea Trade

• 300- Axum accepts Christianity

West Africa

• 200 CE Camels first used in trans Saharan transport

• 450 CE Rise of Ghana

1) What people and language expanded southward from Central Africa in the years 200-900 A.D.

2) Which East African Empire controlled the Red Sea and King converted to Christianity?

3) What part of Africa first domesticated Camels to cross the Trans Saharan trade route?