Early Cultural Diffusion: African Bantu and China.

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Early Cultural Diffusion: African Bantu and China

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Early Cultural Diffusion:African Bantu and China

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Bantu MigrationThe Bantu are an African tribe from West Africa

A Neolithic group- focused on growing crops

Overpopulation, drought and desertification forced them to migrate away

Desertification- land dries out until

plants cant grow

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Bantu desertificationAs the farming lands began to turn to deserts the Bantu could not grow enough food.

Slowly, groups of Bantu migrated away

As they migrated they took their way of life, or culture with them

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Bantu Effects-1/3 of Africa speaks a Bantu language

-Iron tools improved farming and created new tools

-Bantu created settled villages throughout Africa

-subsistence Agriculture (growing enough food to get by)

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China’s Silk Road

What is China’s geography?

What effect does this have on China?

Mountains, deserts, and oceans

Keeps them isolated

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China’s Silk RoadEventually outsiders filter into China bringing goods, technology and new ideas

They find China a unique culture with many new goods and beliefs

As demand grows for goods from the East a series of trade roads develop

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Silk RoadThe Silk Road is MANY roads connecting China to the Middle East (Mesopotamia) over 4,000 miles

Chinese goods like Silk would travel to the East

Glass, new foods and cotton would flow to China

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Silk Road Merchants

Chinese Merchant

Indian Merchant

Middle Eastern

MerchantConsumer

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The merchants would only travel a few hundred miles at a time, then exchange their goods. EVERY time the goods change hands the price goes up

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Silk Worms?!Silk is made from the cocoon of the silk worm

The process was extremely secret…so secret that the penalty for telling outsiders was DEATH

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Crash Course Silk Road

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Monsoon MarketplaceThe Indian Ocean also became a center of trade.

Ships bearing large loads of spice, silk and other goods would travel during the Monsoon seasons

The winds from the Monsoons would push the ships

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Review

The Bantu migrations in Africa (500 BCE-1500CE) had the greatest impact on modern African

1) Languages2) Market Systems3)Transportation Systems4) Architecture

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Review

What categories could the Silk Road fall under?

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