3 - Africa: Myths and Economics

Key Concept

Global Interactions - the impact of migration on the interaction between people and their environments.

Trade and diversity - how are goods traded in hostile areas? How diverse is Africa?

Identities and Relationships - to explore the relationship between cultures and their communities.

Global interactions through trade effect and are affected by the diversity of culture and place.

How physically and culturally diverse is the continent of Africa?
What are the biomes that exist in the African continent? How are these biomes distributed across this vast land mass?
What is "Africa" like?
What natural resources in the African continent did medieval cultures exploit and how?
What kind of exchanges of resources took place (trade)?
Which were some of the important kingdoms of Africa during the Middle Ages?
How did religion impact the cultures of these kingdoms?
Where were they located?
How did they achieve their wealth?
When and how did they emerge and develop?
When and how did they decline?

How is "Africa" perceived? How have trade and associated global interactions affected Africa?
How has the diversity of landscape and culture affected the development of trade and the level of global interactions?
How in turn has diversity been affected by global interactions through trade?

To what extent has trade and associated global interactions kept "Africa" "underdeveloped"?

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