HUMA 1770 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Musa I Of Mali, Middle Ages, Zanj Rebellion
26 May 2013
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Ways people come together: mainly through trade and migration, spread of land, resources, warfare and conquests, expansion. Religion: how to understand the world, and how we got here. Technology/knowledge: early universities and research centre, timbuktu = centre of several empire in middle ages of western africa = centre of learning. Not unified as a continent but discrete empires that interacted through trade. West africa developed internal trade routes because there"s poor natural harbour. Ghana and mali developed while europe was in a feudal disaster. 8th-9th century, king of ghana ruled over all land from rivers. Went south to get gold, agriculture and slave. Central trading place = able to tax as a source of revenue. Took over by the arabs from the north. 1076: ruled by islamics from the north, but short lived: consequence of this conquest of ghana by empire from the north = traveling of islam to this region.
