Africa's History & Migration

#1

• Northern Tanzania
• Fossilized evidence suggests we can trace the roots of all humankind back to Africa
• Lucy
• Homo Habilis

#2

• Climate of Northern Africa
• The environment turned hotter and drier by 2000 B.C. 
• Egyptian and other civilizations 
• The Nile River

#3

• Ghana, Mali, and Songhai
• Gold
• For nearly 1,000 years
• Diamonds

#4

• North
• East
• South
• West

#5

• The People
• One of the most spoken language in Africa
• Southward from Nigeria across central and southern Africa
• 60 million Bantu speakers 

#6

• War between Rome and Carthage, Africa.
• Elephants
• Greece
• Mediterranean Sea

#7

• ivory, gold, textiles, and enslaved workers
• African Rulers 
• Europeans
• Coastal Cities

#8

• Shipping to the Americas
• Work on large plantations
• sugar, tobacco, rice, and cotton
• a major setback to the societies they left behind

#9

• Presence on the coast
• Colonize
• Parts of Africa
• Europe

#10

• 19th Century
• Raw Materials like oil
• 1880
• King Leopold II of Belgium