HIS295H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Soninke People, Great Zimbabwe, History Of Africa
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African political organization: pre-colonial it is divided by state and stateless, the state is hierarchal, communities are linked together by a centralized ruler. Zimbabwe: the bantu, multiple different movements and immigrate to the south east of africa. The largest was found was found in zimbabwe: stone closed buildings were built to keep the cattle, cattle is wealth. It was for the king, to show his wealth and power, the king charged taxation to the shona through ivory, gold: trade shifted to the coast, especially the trade between islamic. Highly centralized kingdom, gold helped the political leaders to established their rule: the kingdom of ghana becomes converted in islam as it was expanding to the borgu states. Sundiata: mandinke or mandinle, soninke people who had ruled ghana, sundiata, griots the keepers of history, historians. 711 ad the army was ready to conquered spain: social order rather than conversion. The trade into the sahara, islam was spread to west africa.
