3.02 africa
Vacations
Peaceful and tranquility are something that Africa can offer you. Visiting important African Kingdoms Can offer many adventures you can’t find anywhere else. Exotic animals, landmarks monuments, religion, and lots of history left behind can be found . Here is a little bit of what you can find.
World Heritage
In this lesson we learned about some African kingdoms and trading States. Axum, a combination of Arabs and Africans who settled in the Red Sea Axum became very powerful even being the wealthiest of the kingdoms in the first century. This achievement was done because of their positioning in Africa which gave them better trade networks. Meroe, the Kush broke for Egyptians and moved to Meroe in 590 BCE. They lived several hundred years off of farming, iron, mining and trading. Oromo, The Oromo people spent lot of time looking for better land to settle. Finally they conquered land ruled by the Zagwe and Solomonids, they became very wealthy depending on trade of coffee. Great Zimbabwe, The migration of the Bantu helped Great Zimbabwe. Along with other cities they prospered by sending goods to the Indian cost. The people of Zimbabwe relied not only on trading but also cattle herding, and agriculture.
Axum
Oromo
Meroe
Great
Zimbabwe
Social
First: king
Second Nobles, soldiers
Third: citizens
Last: slaves
Gada system, which helped all citizens
First: king or queen
Second: priest, soldiers
Third: Merchants, Artisans, Farmers.
Last Enslaved people.
Very strict and marrying somebody in a different class was not liked.
Economic
traded ivory, exotic animal skins, gold and more with other countries
Mainly agriculture of several crops
Different from Egypt.
Paid taxes annual to the king. economy based on cattle husbandry, crop cultivation, and the trade of gold political Used their gained power from trading to keep a centralized state and their people tightly controlled.
Gada government developed by citizens,
Peaceful and tranquility are something that Africa can offer you. Visiting important African Kingdoms Can offer many adventures you can’t find anywhere else. Exotic animals, landmarks monuments, religion, and lots of history left behind can be found . Here is a little bit of what you can find.
World Heritage
In this lesson we learned about some African kingdoms and trading States. Axum, a combination of Arabs and Africans who settled in the Red Sea Axum became very powerful even being the wealthiest of the kingdoms in the first century. This achievement was done because of their positioning in Africa which gave them better trade networks. Meroe, the Kush broke for Egyptians and moved to Meroe in 590 BCE. They lived several hundred years off of farming, iron, mining and trading. Oromo, The Oromo people spent lot of time looking for better land to settle. Finally they conquered land ruled by the Zagwe and Solomonids, they became very wealthy depending on trade of coffee. Great Zimbabwe, The migration of the Bantu helped Great Zimbabwe. Along with other cities they prospered by sending goods to the Indian cost. The people of Zimbabwe relied not only on trading but also cattle herding, and agriculture.
Axum
Oromo
Meroe
Great
Zimbabwe
Social
First: king
Second Nobles, soldiers
Third: citizens
Last: slaves
Gada system, which helped all citizens
First: king or queen
Second: priest, soldiers
Third: Merchants, Artisans, Farmers.
Last Enslaved people.
Very strict and marrying somebody in a different class was not liked.
Economic
traded ivory, exotic animal skins, gold and more with other countries
Mainly agriculture of several crops
Different from Egypt.
Paid taxes annual to the king. economy based on cattle husbandry, crop cultivation, and the trade of gold political Used their gained power from trading to keep a centralized state and their people tightly controlled.
Gada government developed by citizens,