African Cultures Past
 African Artwork

 

 

 

Assignment:

African Kingdoms of the Past:

Mali
Coastal City States ( Swahili)
Songhai
Kongo
Zimbabwe

The following are the four essential questions for this assignment:

1. Social: What was the seen and unseen culture of the society?
2. Geography: How did geography influence the development of the society's culture?
3. Political: How did culture influence the political system?
4. Economic: How did the economic system open their culture to influence from the outside?

Using the following worksheets to help organize information:

  
African Mask

 

Focus Questions for essential questions

 

 

 

Books in Media Center:

960 GAR   Kingdoms of Africa Garlake, Peter S.
960 HAS
  
African Beginnings
Haskins, James
960 PEO
   Peoples of West Africa  
961 HIS
  History of North Africa  
961 PEO
   Peoples of North Africa  
966 ADE
  Songhay Tunde, Adeleke
966 HIS
  
History of West Africa
966 NWA
  Soninke Okeke, Chika
966 ZUR
  West Africa Zurlo, Tony
966.1 MAN
 
African Kingdoms of the Past
Mann, Kenny
966.2 CON
 
The Songhay Empire
Conrad, David
966.2 THO
 
The Empire of Mali

Thompson, Carol
966.23 BRO
 
Daily Life in Ancient and Modern Timbuktu
Brook, Larry
966.23 NAY
 
Mali
Naylor, Kim
966.23 NWA
  
Malinke
Nwanunobi, C. O.
966.23 OTO
 
Mali ... in pictures
O'Toole, Thomas
967 HIS
  
History of Central Africa
967 PEO
  Peoples of Central Africa  
967 PEO
  Peoples of Africa  
967 OKE
  
Kongo
Okeke, Chika
967.6 HIS
 
History of East Africa
967.51 JOR
  Kongo Kingdom Jordan, Manuel
967.6 MAN
  East Africa Mann, Kenny
967.6 WIL
  City States of the Swalhili Coast Wilson, Thomas H.
968 HIS
  
History of Southern Africa
968.91 BES
  Great Zimbabwe

Bessire, Mark

Return to Top

Websites:

National Museum of African Art

African Art

Africa Geographica

Swahili Coast

African City Development: Kongo and Zimbabwe

Civiliations in Africa: The Swahili Kingdoms

Why do Civilizations Fall? Mali and Songhai

Great Zimbabwe

Empires of the Western Sudan: The Mali Empire

Empires of the Western Sudan: The Songhai Empire

 
Mudcloth Rug

 

Vest made from shells

Rubric:

     
Museum exhibit / Artifact Permission   Thursday, 1/10/06
Research Graphic Organizer 16 points Friday, 1/27/06
Written Report Approximately one page in length

 32 points Friday, 1/27/06
Student will create a museum artifact exhibit
 30 points Friday, 1/27/06
Oral Presentation of museum exhibit to class. No more than 3 minutes in length. 12 points Friday, 1/27/06 or Monday 1/30
 
90 points
  

 

Return to Top

 

Return to Media Center Homepage