LATIN AMERICAN AND AFRICA
ANCIENT AFRICA Human origins—great rift valley (Lucy) Traditional cultures Animism—oldest religion
BANTU MIGRATION
NORTH AFRICA—MEDITERANEAN Egypt Roman Empire (and Alexandria-Greece) Islamic caliphates
GOLD AND SALT TRADE Sahara trade routes Trade kingdoms- (Ibn Battuta)
West Africa Ghana Mali Songhai
East Africa Mogadishu Axum
SLAVE TRADE
IMPERIALISM 1884 Congress of Berlin
INDEPENDENCE Post-world war 2 Rise of nationalism Borders follow colonial boundaries Challenges—democracy and ethnic
tensions
APARTHEID Bishop Tutu Nelson Mandela Deklerk
ANCIENT SOUTH AMERICA migration
MAYANS Agriculture (Chinampas) Temples Writing and calendars
AZTECS Ruled empire Montezuma Conquistadors-Cortez
INCA Mountain empire (geography,
infrastructure) Conquistadors- Pizarro
LATIN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS Encomienda system Influenced by… Simon Bolivar Jose San Martin
MEXICO Peasant revolution Father Hidalgo and Morales (1800s) Revolution of 1910-20
MOVEMENT TOWARD DEMOCRACY Military juntas ruled Slow steps toward democracy/reform
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