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- - - - Bantu Speaking Peoples were small groups moved southward throughout Africa, spreading their language and culture.
      - When the Bantu speakers settled into an area, changes
        occurred.
      - As the Bantu speakers spread south into hunter-gatherers’ lands, territorial wars often broke out.
    - - Migration is a permanent move from one country or region
        to another.
      - When looking at migration, historians and geographers speak of push-pull factors.These factors can either push people out of an area or pull them into an area.
  - - - Terraces, or steplike ridges constructed on mountain slopes, helped the soil retain water and prevented its being washed downhill in heavy rains.
    - - Early Aksumite religion probably resembled the polytheistic religion practiced in southern arabia at the time.
    - - Finally, a more powerful kingdom arose and conquered Kush. That kingdom was Aksum
      - Ezana was Determined to establish and expand his
        authority, Ezana first conquered the part of the Arabian peninsula
      - Aksum was located south of Kush on a rugged plateau on the Red Sea, in what are now the countries of Eritrea and Ethiopia.
      - Aksum’s chief seaport,
        Adulis
  - - - The largest deserts are the Sahara in the north
        and the Kalahari in the south.
      - Each year the desert takes over more and more of the land at the southern edge of the Sahara Desert, the Sahel
      - Most people in Africa live on the savannas, or grassy plains.
    - - They generally also included elements of animism, a religion in
        which spirits play an important role in regulating daily life.
      - In West Africa, for example, these storytellers, or griots kept the history alive.
    - - Africa’s earliest peoples were nomadic
        hunter-gatherers.
      - Other early Africans eventually learned to domesticate
        and raise a variety of animals for food.
      - Experts believe that agriculture in Africa probably began by 6000 b.c.
    - - West Africa’s earliest known culture was that of the Nok people. They lived in what is now Nigeria between 500 b.c. and a.d. 200.
      - Nok artifacts have been found in an area stretching for 300 miles between the Niger and Benue rivers.
- - - - Kalidasa was one of indias famous writers and may have been the court poet for Chandra Gupta the second.
    - - One of the main and most important trading routes for the indians was the Silk Road. This road led to much cultural diffusion and trade.
    - - The Mahayana sect was the people that accepted people who thought buddha was god. Those who held to the Buddha's stricter, original teaching belonged to the Theravada Sect. Stupas were stone structures built to represent holy relects. Their three gods were Brahma, the creator of the world, Vishnu, preserver of the world, and Shiva, the destroyer of the world.
  - - - Wudi had a government that employed more than 130000 people and the bureaucracy included 18 different ranks of civil service which were government jobs that the civilians obtained.
    - - When Liu Bang turned against Xiang Yu, they fought and he won then declaring himself ruler of the Han Dynasty. A centralized government is which Lui Bang wanted was a government which a central authority controls the running of the state.
  - - - Mauryan Empire: When the Chandragupta Maurya gathered an army and killed the unpopular king Nanda, this started to Mauryan Empire. Asoka was Chandragupta's son and brought to empire to its greatest heights. Many people urged Religious Toleration which is acceptance of people who held different religions.
    - - After 500 years of war and turmoil a ruler arose by the name of Chandra Gupta with no relation to Chandragupta Maurya and built India's second empire, Gupta Empire. Patriarchal was household headed by the eldest male and matriarchal was headed by the mother and father.
    - - Tamil was the language spoken in Southern India and the people that spoke this were named tamil people.