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Grade UNIT 9 OVERVIEW: Ancient Africa

Unit Outcomes

Key Vocabulary

At the end of this unit, your student should be able Terms to deepen the students understanding
to:conversion to Islam
Explain how Mansa Musas
Aksum (Axum)
Bantu
transformed
Deforestation
Ghana
West African civilization.
Caravans
Gold-Salt Trade
Evaluate how the lack of salt but the
Great Zimbabwe
Griots
abundance of gold in western Africa impacted
Kush
Nile River
the people, goods, and ideas that crossed the
Meroe
Mali
Sahara Desert.
Timbuktu
Mansa Musa
Assess the influence of the extensive trade
Oasis
Sahara
network that spanned the Indian Ocean on
Savannah
Songhai
East African city-states.
Subsistence farming Swahili
Determine the consequences of Portugal's
East African City-States
Monsoon
efforts to control gold and other valuable
Proverbs
resources on the decline of West African
civilizations.
Illustrate the way West African folktales and
art reflected the peoples' history, cultural
values, and religious beliefs.
Key Standards Addressed
Essential Questions
Connections to Common Core/NC Essential
Connections to prior and future
Standards
learning- What role did key historical
6.H.2.4 - Explain the role
that key historical figures
6.H.2.4
and
figures and cultural groups have in
cultural groups had in transforming society.
transforming society?
6.G.1.2 - Explain the factors that influenced the
6.G.1.2 - What factors influence the
movement of people, goods, and ideas and the
movement of people, goods, and ideas
effects of that movement on societies and
and what are the effects of that
regions over time (e.g. scarcity of resources,
movement on societies and regions
conquests, desire for wealth, disease and
over time?
trade).
6.E.1.1 - How does conflict,
6.E.1.1 - Explain how conflict, compromise, and
compromise, and negotiation over the
negotiation over the availability of resources
availability of resources (natural,
impacted the economic development of various
human and capital) impact the
civilizations, societies and regions
economic development of various
E.1.2 - Explain how quality of life is impacted
civilizations, societies and regions?
by economic choices of civilizations, societies,
E.1.2 - How is quality of life impacted
and regions.
by the economic choices of
C. 1.1 - Analyze how cultural expressions
civilizations, societies and regions?
reflected the values of civilizations,
C. 1.1 - How is culture reflected
societies, and regions.
through the values of civilizations,
6.C.1.2 - Explain how religion transformed
societies and regions?
various societies, civilizations, and regions.
6.C.1.2 - In what ways did religion
transform various societies,
civilizations and regions?