Africa and the Americas Powerpoint Project For this project you will need to create three items: a brief five minute powerpoint presentation, a poster, and five questions and answers that a student can complete based on your presentation. Students assigned to a Chapter 7 topic about Africa will present on Oct. 28th (A day) and Oct. 29th (B day). Students assigned to a Chapter 8 topic will present on Oct. 30th (A Day) and Oct. 31st (B day). ***For extra credit students may bring in a dish from their assigned culture to share with the class on either Oct. 30th or Oct. 31st*** Ch.7 Africa Lesson 1 African Geography and Society: Topics: Impact of geography, African society, family, education and slavery Terms: plateaus, savannas, lineage groups, matrilineal, patrilineal, subordinate African Religion and Culture: Topics: Yoruban religion, arrival of Islam, arrival of Christianity, culture, wood carvings, bronze sculptures, African music and dance, oral history Terms: diviners, griots Lesson 2 The Kingdom of Ghana: Topics: What does the name “Ghana” mean? What did they trade gold for? environment, politics, economics, technology Terms: Berber, camel caravans, trans-Saharan trade, The Kingdom of Mali Topics: politics, economics, Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage to Makkah, Mansa Musa’s legacy, Timbuktu, Songhai, Sunni Ali, Muhammad Ture and the Askia dynasty, collapse of the Songhai empire Terms: Administrative, usurper The Societies of East and South Africa Topics: bantu migrations, Great Zimbabwe, Mogadishu and Kilwa, Ibn Battuta, Mogadishu, arab trade, Zimbabwe, m Terms: subsistence farming, Swahili, stateless society Ch.8 Pre-Columbian America Lesson 1 North America Topics: land bridge, Eastern Woodlands, Mound Builders, Iroquois, buffalo, Anasazi, Mesa Verde Terms: longhouses, clans, tepees, Lesson 1 The Maya Topics: temples, calendar, decline of the Maya, politics, human sacrifice, religion, Itzama, writing system, end of Mayan calendar Terms: Mesoamerica, city-state, hieroglyphics, The Toltec and Aztec Topics: location of Toltecs, warlike, location of Aztec, Tenocthitlan, Huitzilopochtli, politics, social structure, religion, Quetzalcoatl, human sacrifice Terms: tribute, chinampas, nobility, Lesson 2 The Nazca: location, Nazca lines The Inca Topics: location, Cuzco, politics and society, why they didn’t use the wheel?, forced labor, economics, roads, Machu Picchu Terms: Quechua, terraced farming, irrigation, textiles, quipu