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African Archeology

Age/Grade Level or Audience

Middle school or high school history classes.

Description

Create a time line of events from ancient African cultures.

Procedure

Introduce early African civilizations and have groups of students gather facts about such African achievements and civilizations as these:

Abu Simbel Axumites Bachwezi Benin Berbers Carthage Changamire Cheops' pyramid Darfur Ewe Great Zimbabwe Kanem-Bornu Kilwa Kongo

Kush Library of Alexandria Lozi Luba Lunda Mali Monomotapa Nok Oyo Sheba Songhay Sphinx of Gizeh Wadai

Place their findings chronologically alongside these worldwide artistic and architectural accomplishments:

Anasazi pueblos Angkor Wat Appian Way Caernarvon Camelot Chichen Itza Colossus of Rhodes Easter island Eiffel Tower Great Buddha Great Wall of China Hanging Gardens, Babylon American Indian mounds Leptis Magna Mount Rushmore Nintoku mounds

Notre Dame Cathedral Olduvai Gorge Palace of Knossos Parthenon Point Hope, Alaska Roman Colosseum Rosetta Stone Sancta Sophia Stonehenge Suez Canal Taj Mahal Temple at Jerusalem Tintagel Troy Washington Monument World Trade Center

Sources

"African Documents," http://www.cwis.org/africa.html.
"Africa Online," http://africaonline.com.
Elleh, Nnamdi, African Architecture Evolution and Transformation, McGraw-Hill, 1996.
Gaines, Ernest J., Timetables of History, Random House, 1996.
Harley, Sharon, Timetables of African-American History: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in African-American History, Simon & Schuster, 1996.
Jackson, John G., Introduction to African Civilizations, Citadel Press, 1994.
Saccardi, Marianne, Art in Story: Teaching Art History to Elementary School Children, Linnet Books, 1997.
Trager, James, The People's Chronology, revised edition, Henry Holt, 1996.
Viney, Graham, Historic Houses of South Africa, Abbeville Press, 1997.

Alternative Applications

Have students create a hall display by placing dated information on a long horizontal scroll and illustrating these and other architectural designs:

• beehive style
• cone-topped buildings
• fortress-temple
• Moorish
• mosque
• mound
• post and lintel
• pueblo
• pyramid
• ziggurat