Name: Date:Homeroom: 6th Grade World HistoryObjective: SWBAT describe three ways the Bantu people adapted to their environment.

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1. What religion did West Africa mostly convert to by the 14th century?

2. What language was spoken in the city-states of the East African coast?

3. How was gold transported across the Sahara Desert?

4. Which king of Mali grew famous in Eurasia after his hajj to Mecca in 1324?

5. Islam helped East African merchants trade within which ocean?

6. The Mali kingdom grew wealthy by controlling trade in what product?

7. What was the Neolithic Revolution?

8. What was Hammurabi’s Code?

Emily Birch, 02/05/18,

Look at the picture in your packet and that I have projected on the board. What impact do you think this has on the group of people who would live there? (T&T: Anticipated Answers: People are going to have to move, everything is destroyed) Take 2 Hands. I agree, this image looks very negative. What if I told you that it is actually an ancient method of farming? (Pause for Shock and Awe). The person in this picture is actually burning down forested land in order to create fertile soil for growing crops. Today we are going to learn more about the people who adopted this practice.

Today’s BIG QUESTION:

How did the Bantu people adapt to their environment between 2000 BCE – 1000 CEDirections: Read the text and label A for adaptations to the environment. Add at least 1 margin note per section. SOURCE: Compiled and adapted from several textbooks and secondary sources

The Bantu-speaking PeoplesEarly Africans made some of the greatest

migrations in history. When the migrations were over they or their descendants populated the southern third of the continent. Starting in the first few centuries CE and continuing over 1,500 years, small groups moved southward throughout Africa, spreading their language and culture. Historians refer to these people as the Bantu-speaking peoples. The word Bantu itself means “the people”. The Bantu-speaking peoples original lived in the savanna south of the Sahara, in the area that is now southeastern Nigeria. Bantu speakers were not one people, but rather a group of peoples who shared cultural characteristics. They were farmers and nomadic herders who developed and passed along the skills of ironworking.

The earliest Bantu speakers settled mostly along the banks of rivers, which they navigated in canoes, and in open areas of the region’s forests. They cultivated yams and oil palms, millet and sorghum. They also kept goats and raised guinea fowl. They lived in clan-based villages headed by chiefs who conducted religious rituals and represented their communities in dealings with neighboring villages. They traded regularly with hunting and gathering peoples who inhabited the tropical forests. Bantu cultivators provided these forest dwellers with pottery and stone axes in exchange for meat, honey, and other forest products.Causes of Migration

Beginning at least 2,000 years ago or earlier, small groups of Bantu speakers began moving south and east. The farming techniques used by these people

forced them to move every few years. The technique is called slash and burn. A patch of forest is cut down and burned. The ashes are mixed into the soil creating a fertile garden area. However, the land loses its fertility quickly and is abandoned for another plot in a new location. When they moved, the Bantu speakers shared their skills with the people they met, adapted their methods to suit each new environment, and learned new customs. They followed the Congo River through the rainforests. There they farmed the riverbanks—the only place that received enough sunlight to support agriculture.

As the Bantu-speaking people moved eastward into the savannas, they adapted their techniques for herding goats and sheep to raising cattle. They learned how to milk cattle from the people living on the savannas. Passing through was is now Kenya and Tanzania, they learned to cultivate new crops.

Technological AdvancementsHistorians and archeologists believe that once the

Bantu peoples developed agriculture, they were able to produce an agricultural surplus. This resulted in an increased population and a need to use more land for farming. The Bantu moved southward to less populated areas.

During this massive migration, the Bantu people

brought with them the technology of iron smelting. Iron smelting is the process of melting mineral ores found in nature to extract the metals they contain. The ability to smelt iron is a major technological development of the Nok and Bantu-speaking peoples. As they moved southward, the Bantu were searching for locations with iron ore resources and hardwood forests. They needed the hardwood to make charcoal to fuel the smelting furnaces. Iron tools enabled Bantu cultivators to clear land and expand the zone of agriculture more effectively than before, and iron weapons allowed the Bantu speaking peoples to conquer more land.

Today’s BIG QUESTION:

How did the Bantu people adapt to their environment between 2000 BCE to 1000 CE?

Guided Discourse Norms:1. Track the speaker2. Use Habits of Discussion3. Support your comments using evidence from the documents4. Capture discussion notes in the space provided

Name: Date:Homeroom: 6th Grade World HistoryObjective: SWBAT describe three ways the Bantu people adapted to their environment.

Exit TicketToday’s BIG QUESTIONHow did the Bantu people adapt to their environment between 2000 BCE and 1000 CE?

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Directions: Answer the following questions based on your knowledge of history. Make sure to answer the questions by marking up the question and using legit POE on each answer choice. REMEMBER:

NT – not true NR – not relevant TS – too specific TG – too general

1. Which of the following best defines the slash and burn farming?a) A type of farming where poisoned crops are cut down and burned for new crops b) A method of agriculture in which vegetation is cut and burned to create fertile soil c) A technique where farmers chop and burn them to make more room for their farmsd) A style of agriculture where fertile lands are burned to create useful ash

2. The Bantu used the forest for which of the following reasons EXCEPT:a) Mining iron oreb) Creating fertile soil

c) Creating charcoald) Raising cattle

3. Which of the following is a cause of the Bantu migration from 2000 BCE to 1000 CE?

a) Techniques for herding and cultivating were spread to other peoplesb) More than sixty million people now speak a bantu languagec) Trading cities developed along the coast of east Africad) Population increases put pressure on agriculture

NOTES: Unit 5 Lesson 11 Bantu PeoplesThe Bantu peoples

• Originated in the region around modern _______________________• ______________________ Society

– Cultivated ___________ and palm oil– Herded _________________

• Population pressure drove ______________________• Spread to south and east • Language differentiated into about 500 distinct related tongues

Slash and Burn Agriculture Patch of forest is ___________________and ______________, the ashes mixed into

soil creating ______________ garden area. Land loses fertility quickly and is ____________________ for another plot

Early migrations of Bantu (3000-1000 B.C.E.)• Move south and west into the ______________ ________________• Absorb much of the population of

___________________________________people• By 1000 B.C.E. occupy most of Africa south of the __________________• Bantu rate of migration increases after 1000 B.C.E. • Due to the appearance of _______________

– Iron tools allow them to ______________ more land for agriculture

– Iron _________________ give them an advantage

Directions: Read and annotate the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

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Date:Homeroom: 6th Grade World HistoryObjective: SWBAT describe three ways the Bantu people adapted to their environment.