HISTORY 40A Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Yoruba People, Black Sheep, History Of Africa

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There will be something on the midterm on puritans. Ancient africa: as varied as it was vast. Images of africans in the english mind: characteristics, color 2. Before portugal made its first landing on the coast of west africa. Nothing would have caused europeans to believe that people of africa inferior. Nothing would have suggested african cultures had not developed as peoples of europe. Little cultural or technological gap between societies of europe and africa when first met. Africa contained a number of extraordinary empires. Kingdom of benin (sculpture, art works ect. ) Kingdom of mali (sankore mosque, timbuktu, built 1324 -- 1327) Africa was as varied as it was vast. English did find african different (4 examples: color: these people are all black and are called negroes without any apparell before thier. Definitions before 16th century: black sheep, black mark, black look, black lie privates. 17th century poem: every white will have its black, every sweet its sour .

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