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As African kingdoms begin to rise and fall, outsiders begin to creep in with eyes on the treasures throughout the land.
In 1200 Mali Empire rises under Sunjata Keita and after 1250 expands to the Atlantic coast.
In 1324 Mansa Musa, emperor of Mali, pilgrimages to Mecca
In 1413 Portuguese voyagers landed on the African Coast.
By 1444 the first African captives were sold in Europe.
Toby Green in Fistful of Shells wrote that medieval Europeans named African regions based on “commodities on offer for exchange…Ivory Coast, Grain Coast (modern Liberia) and the Slave Coast (between modern Benin and southwestern Nigeria).” Green said it became a continent thought of in terms of what could be extracted or consumed. Europeans were not the only ones who thought of the continent in that way, because trade routes to the middle east existed before the Europeans came.
Affirmation
Caring looks like compassion.
This week I heard a teacher say God wants us to care.
She pointed out that one of the first ways He introduces Himself to man in Exodus 34:6 is that he is Compassionate.
He is cares. We should care too.
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In this upside down world, bad is good and good is bad, In 1964 to 1966 the war rages in Vietnam, African Americans fight for civil rights and television choses to ignore it. The Sistas talk about how the networks created their own perfect society despite reality. They invited their friend, Patti Sikes a retired AP History teacher to join them on this episode.
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Ketanji Brown Jackson
Art of the Quarter
This quarter history focuses on slavery which is just a portion of history.
As African kingdoms begin to rise and fall on the continent, outsiders begin to creep in with eyes on the treasures throughout the land.
In 1200, Mali Empire rises under Sunjata Keita and after 1250 expands to the Atlantic coast.
In 1324, Mansa Musa, emperor of Mali, pilgrimages to Mecca.
In 1413, Portuguese voyagers landed on the African Coast.
By 1444, the first African captives were sold in Europe.
Toby Green in Fistful of Shells wrote that medieval Europeans named African regions based on “commodities on offer for exchange…Ivory Coast, Grain Coast (modern Liberia) and the Slave Coast (between modern Benin and southwestern Nigeria).” Green said it became a continent thought of in terms of what could be extracted or consumed. Europeans were not the only ones who thought of the continent in that way, because trade routes to the middle east existed before the Europeans came.
Affirmation
I care. I am concerned and interested in what happens. It is easy to not care about people you don’t know. Or people who are not like you.
But this month, let’s all care everybody.
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