PPT-Medicine in Africa: Empire

Racial science Colonial government medicine Missionary medicine A Case Study Venereal Disease in Uganda I Racial Science Originally relationships between Europeans and Africans were positive. http://www.snopes.com/photos/sunset.asp. Africa’s Unique Physical Geography. Intro. Africa is really a plateau continent with escarpments and rift valleys- . Below is a picture of the Great Escarpment (Drakensberg) in South Africa . SSWG4: . The student will describe the interaction of physical and human systems that have shaped contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa. . Standard Covered. a. . Describe the location of major physical features and their impact on Sub-Saharan Africa. . IMPLICATIONS FOR MIGRATION PATTERNS. Ana . Faria. -Santana. CCPN-LSE Research Associate. SUMMARY. I. . SOUTH . AFRICA – “THE GATEWAY TO AFRICA”?.  . II. SOUTH . AFRICA’S ROLE IN BRICS.  . Economic . Chapter 25. Overview: African Politics and Society. Review: Bantus – migrations, stateless societies -> chiefdoms and regional kingdoms -> Trans-Saharan trade -> large kingdoms, empires, and city-states. www.educationforum.co.uk. . In the 7. th. century AD the new religion of Islam spread rapidly through the Middle East, North Africa and even into Spain and Portugal. Islamic territories united under one ruler or caliph. Preview. Decline. -. After the year 180, political, geographic, and cultural factors made the Roman Empire weaker. Finally, it fell into decline.. Diocletian and Constantine. - . Diocletian returned order and organization to the empire. Constantine totally changed the way the empire was run.. Early African Development. Bantu were a language group from west Africa. used . iron tools to clear lands and cultivate crops. grew . yams, millet, and . sorghum. . increasing . food supply. population growth strained. Empire . of . Ghana. Trade was vital to the societies of West Africa. That region produced valuable resources—notably . gold. —that brought high prices. By the 800s, rulers of Ghana had used the wealth from these products to create a huge, powerful empire.. Capital: Byzantium. On the Bosporus. Commercial, strategic value of location. Constantine names capital after himself (Constantinople), moves capital there 330 CE. 1453 falls to Turks, renamed Istanbul. Mrs. Costello. Mrs. . Suto. ,. Ms. . Soddano. Geography. 2. nd. largest continent. 1/5 of Earth’s land surface. Varied geographic features.. Climate Zones. Savanna. Natural resources. Griot. Kinship. Lineage. Proverb. Africa’s Geography. Africa’s geography includes plateaus in its interior, a coastline filled with waterfalls, and deserts such as the Sahara.. Byzantine Empire – Eastern Roman Empire Byzantine Empire (330 CE-1453 CE) The Eastern Empire split from Rome after 330 CE, and continued under Greek rule While the West fell in 485 CE, the East continued and was a dominant force Traces of smallpox pustules were found on the head of a 3000-year-old mummy of the Pharaoh Ramses V CENTURYA written description of a disease that clearly resembles smallpox In China people appealed t Jeanette M. Tetrault, MD FACP FASAM. Associate Professor of Medicine. Program Director, Addiction Medicine Fellowship. Associate Director for Education and Training, Program in Addiction Medicine. Yale School of Medicine.