Settlement and Migration in Africa

Hatshepsut

I. Themes Comparisons complex urban societies: Mesopotamia and Egypt migration: Indo-European and Bantu Sense of Place*: identity and history matrilineal genealogies

II. Complex Society in North Africa:

• Nile Environment:*
• river:
  
  
• valley:
  
  
• Lotus and Papyrus:
  
  
• development timeline:
  
  
• Culture and Worldview
• agriculture
  
  
• cities
  
  
• Rosetta Stone
• concept of the state
  • pyramid
    
    
  • pharaoh
    
    
• Ma'at
  
  
• Sense of Place comparisons
  
  

III. Sub-Sahara Africa: Bantu Migration

• Environment:
  
  
  • Sahara: *
    
  • eastern plains:
    
  • rivers Niger*
    
  • forests:
    
  • spread of agriculture:
• Bantu migration (BBC site)
  
  
• Africa: contrasting lifestyles
  • !Kung in the Kalahari desert
    
    
  • Bantu agriculture Kraal*
    
    
  • Egypt and Sub-Sahara Africa
    
    
  • role of women

IV. Comparisons

• complex societies: Egypt and Mesopotamia
  
  
• migration and identity
  
  
• Questions?

Next Week: South Asia and East Asia

• T&E chapters 4-5
• Encounters, Purusha and Code of Manu (ch 2), Ramayana and Instructions of Yi (ch. 3)