History 5301 - Advanced Studies in West Africa to 1800

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University of Missouri-St Louis

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Description:

Prerequisites: Graduate standing.? Discusses both the history and historiography of Africa's most populous and ethnically diverse region.? Beginning with the prehistoric era prior to the desiccation of the Sahara, the course explores climatology and population movement, changes in food production and technology, state formation, the spread of Islam, cultural and political diversity in the forest region, domestic slavery, the Atlantic slave trade and its abolition.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.umsl.edu/

Phone Number:

(314) 516-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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