Organization COMPARISON THEMES (SCRIPTED):1. Politics 2. Social Structure 3. Economics/Interactions TIME PERIODS: 1. 400-600 CE 2. 600-1000 CE 3. 1000-1450 CE THESIS As the political and social structures of Sub-Saharan Africa developed during the years 400 - 1450 C.E.‚ hierarchy structures based on kinship were maintained‚ however self-contained city-states grew into large empires. BEGINNING TIME PERIOD INTERIM TIME
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Sub-saharan Africa has undergone changes with religion such as the changing of religious affiliation to Christianity and the practices of cosmology and ontology‚ however‚ Sub-saharan Africa has also remained constant with their thoughts being focused on various beliefs like a creator and evil. Christianity was predominantly the main religion in Sub-saharan Africa opposed to the Muslims of North Africa. Christianity in the Americas slowly began to send out missionaries to spread the Gospel and build
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to interact with humans and the environment by settling into varying parts of West and East Africa and creating a network with their neighbors in order to receive new technologies and foods. The Bantu exchanged goods with local hunter-gatherers‚ and the people cut into forests and settled down into villages. The Assyrians first brought iron to Egypt around 600 BCE and it quickly spread to Sub-Saharan Africa. Around 200 CE‚ Indonesians settled on the coast bringing Asian bananas and‚ since they had
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Giraffes live primarily in savanna areas in the sub-Saharan region of Africa Giraffes can be found in central‚eastern and southern Africa Some giraffes live in the zoo to. Giraffe are browsers and mainly eat buds on trees‚ shrubs and leaves They also eat herbs‚ climbers and vines‚ and prefer flowers and fruit when in season Acacia leaves and shoots form the bulk of a giraffe’s diet in most areas. Giraffes have more than one stomach Giraffes are ruminant Giraffes have four stomachs and the
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What is the Cause of the High Maternal Mortality Rate in Sub-Saharan Africa? The causes could total 50 or they could be only one‚ what are the primary causes of the high maternal mortality rate in sub-Saharan Africa? There are 4 major reasons why this impoverished region of the world grapples with such a challenge. First and foremost is the magnitude of poverty in the region. Secondly‚ the lack of maternal services available to the population both pre and post delivery. Thirdly‚ the lack education
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Africa Rapidly increasing the population‚ Africa is the second largest continent in the world. Therefore‚ this continent lay on all four hemispheres and contains over a quarter of the independent countries across the world. Being such a large continent‚ Africa is categorized into two different sections the North African Middle East half‚ made up of the northern countries‚ and what is known as Sub-Saharan Africa which consists of the southernmost countries. Utilizing approximately one-fifth of the
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The countries that comprise sub-Saharan Africa rely more on their natural resource base for economic and social needs than any other region in the world. Two out of three of sub-Saharan Africa’s people live in rural areas and depend on agriculture and other natural resources for income. However‚ the environmental resource base of the region is shrinking rapidly. Environmental problems of sub-Saharan Africa include air and water pollution‚ deforestation‚ loss of soil and soil fertility‚ and a dramatic
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more they still wallow in poverty largely as a result of the leadership strategies that have been continuously adopted by the elite. At the beginning of this paper‚ I tried to define development and either way you look at it‚ the leaders in Sub Saharan Africa have in many occasions got the development agenda wrong for their countries. For instance let us assume that their intention was to create wealth even without minding so much about the well being of the citizens‚ in many instances such wealth
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Religions in Sub-Saharan Africa “Listen more often the Things Beings‚ Voice of Fire means‚ Hear the Voice of Water. Listen to the Wind Le Buisson into tears: It is the breath of the ancestors.” This excerpt comes from Senegalese Birago Diop’s poem “Souffles” which shows ancestor worship in Sub-Saharan Africa. Throughout history‚ Sub-Saharan Africa experienced multi-religious changes throughout 500 BCE - 1750 AD‚ beginning with animism‚ polytheism‚ and anthropomorphic worship of a god; however they
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Significant changes occurred in East Africa between 600 and 1450. Specifically‚ the increase of slave trade and better‚ more useful technologies through the Indian Ocean Trade Network. These changes are important because the growth of city-states occurred due to this network. During this period‚ the overall trade of the region remained relatively constant. This continuity was important because it allowed for economic and technological development to flourish in the region. Safer travel‚ pacified
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