HIST 313 — History of Africa up to 1500
History · University of Ghana
This is a sweeping survey of the cultural, religious and commercial developments in ancient Africa. It explores the cultures of Pre–dynastic Pharaonic Egypt, the legacy of Egypt, Kush and Meroe. Axum: monophysite Christianity, the ivory, gold and slave trade in East Africa, the Arab conquest of North Africa and the Beber reaction on the Almoravid and Almohad states, the Great Zimbabwe Culture, the Mwena Mutapa empire and the Rosvi States of East Central Africa, religion, trade and State in the Western Central Sudan, Ghana, Mali and Kanem will be explored
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 300
- Semester
- Semester One
Other courses on this programme
- HIST 311 — History of Ghana up to 1800
- HIST 315 — The Black Diaspora
- HIST 317 — Economic History of West Africa: 1700 to 1890
- HIST 319 — Aspects of Early Modern European History
- HIST 321 — Islam and Christianity in Africa
- HIST 323 — Colonial and Modern India Studies
- HIST 326 — History of Africa up to 1800
- HIST 332 — The History of Western Medicine in Ghana
- HIST 334 — Women in History
- HIST 336 — History of Pan-Africanism
- HIST 111 — Earliest Civilizations
- HIST 112 — Selected Topics in World History
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 2 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Humanities (2017).