“Africa and the Early Christian Wor
I’m stuck on a Article Writing question and need an explanation.
- Watch Module 2 Video (Links to an external site.)
- Go through Art Slides, Chapter II
- Go through the PDF Presentation “Finding Food and Talking About It: The First 100,000 Years”
- Go through the PDF Presentation “Settled Life Food Production, Technology, and Migrations”
- Go through Art Slides, Chapter III
- Go through the power point presentation “North and Northeast Africa in Early World History”
- Go through the power point presentation “Africa and the Early Christian World”
- Watch the entire Part 2 (52 minutes), entitled “The Crescent and the Cross (Links to an external site.),” of the video s
- As you engage with the questions below, you should clearly mark which question you are dealing with in a specific answer by indicating its number.
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- Why was the Nile River so important to the Egyptian people and the Egyptian state?
- How were the speakers of Bantu languages able to become the dominant population in the southern half of Africa?
- Why did Islam initially expand by conquest? Can you distinguish between the expansion of Arab power and the spread of Islam?
- How did Ghana, Mali, and Songhay become wealthy and powerful empires even though they failed to gain control of the gold-mining regions?
