The basis for the Early Iron Age economy was farming.
Main crops: sorghum and millets, supplemented with various
pumpkin, melon and beans.
Cattle: cow, goats, and sheep. Small numbers. Meat rather than
milk. Slaughtered because of ceremonial or religious
Late Stone Age:
The main distinctive feature was the development of the microlith (tiny stone).
Spears and arrows were created by using blades created by stone flakes.
One of the main advances in hunting technology during this period was the
developme
Home erectus:
They descended from the Homo ergaster (1.8 million years ago)
upright man
1.5 million years ago
They were the first hominid to make specific and precise stone tools, to a
predetermined shape, requiring major advance in brain-power, and
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Charles Darwins Theory:
Charles Darwin suggested that Africa was the birthplace of humankind.
Darwin challenged the theory that God created mankind and all other living
creatures in a week.
Darwins theory came out at the time of the heigh
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By the fifth century CE the knowledge and skills of iron-working and crop
cultivation had been established right across the more favorable regions of central,
eastern and southern Africa.
The relatively rapid spread of iron-working to this
AFS Chapter 4
By the fifth century CE the knowledge and skills of iron-working and crop
cultivation had been established right across the more favorable regions of central,
eastern and southern Africa.
The relatively rapid spread of iron-working to this
Bantu Migration:
Previous theory:
Bantu-speakers spread across eastern, central and southern Africa in
the comparatively recent past.
The main source of evidence was oral traditions which traced ruling
lineages back seldom more than five hundred years.
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The rulers of Ifat withdrew eastwards to the plateau of Harar where they
founded the kingdom of Adal. Here from a strategic position between the
highlands of Ethiopia and the coastal port of Zeila, the Walaswa dynasty set
about rebuilding Muslim power.
o
Ethiopia under the Solomonid dynasty (1270-1550)
o The Solomonid kings justified their seizure of power by claiming descent
through the rulers of ancient Aksum to the traditional union of biblical
King Solomon and the queen of Sheba.
o The royal court, g
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By 800 CE the capital of Ethiopia had been moved further south from Aksum to
somewhere in the central highlands of the interior.
o External trade had declined with the rise of Muslim Baghdad and the
subsequent diversion of Indian Ocean trad
Social Organizations:
Communities usually lived in small family-sized groups.
In drier regions these groups were small, often no more than about twenty
individuals.
In wetter regions where game and vegetable food was abundant, they seem to have
lived in
