african women in antiquity (slide show)
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Earlier this year, the Black Student Union @ City College held a wonderful event where we honored many Great African women in history.TRANSCRIPT
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Great African Women
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Tropical Cradle vs Hostile Cradle
● Plentiful Civilizations
– Kemet
– Nubia
– India
– China
– Eskimo
– Taino
● Scarce Civilizations
– Macedonia
– Persia
– Mongolia
– England, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Viking, etc
– Aztec
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Societal Formations● Matriarchal Societies – Woman as the leader.
● Patriarchal Society – Man as the leader
– Kemet (most of the time)
– Persia
– Greece
– USA, Europe (most of the time)
– Zulu (southern Africa)
● Matrilinial Government – Line of leaders being traced through the mother, or female ancestor.
– Kemet (Egypt)
– Akan (Ghana)
– Tuareg (North Africa)
– Hopi, Navajo (North American Native)
● Patrilinial Government – Line of leaders being traced through the father, or male ancestor
– Greece
● Matrilocal – Married family staying with the mother's side.
● Patrilocal – Married family staying with the father's side.
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Auset: First Queen of the Nile ValleyAuset: First Queen of the Nile Valley
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Auset
● Teacher– Farming
– Mummification
– Medicine
● Goddess of – Humanity
– Magic
– Motherhood
● Creator– Nile
– Reincarnation
– Tekhens
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Story of Ausar/Auset
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Kemetic Golden Age 18th Dynasty 1550 – 1292 BCE
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Ahmose-Nefertari ~1525 BCE ● Genetic mother of the 18th dynasty
● Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh (Nesut Biti) Ahmose I
● Leader of Kemet for 5-10 years
● Remembered as a warrior Queen
● Helped finally repel the Hyksos
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The king's wife, the noble lady, who knew everything, assembled Kemet. She looked after what her Sovereign had established. She guarded it. She assembled her fugitives. She brought together her deserters. She pacified her Upper Egyptians. She subdued her rebels,
The king's wife Ahhotep given life.
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Hatshepsut ~ 1508 BC - 1458 BC
● 5th Pharoah of the 18th Dynasty
● Great Grand Daughter of Ahmose Nefertari
● Expelled New Generations of Rebelling Hyksos
● Subsequent Kings Tried to Destroy Her Legacy.
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Expedition to Punt
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Queen Tiye Era ~ 1400 – 1325 BCE
● Unification of Upper and Lower Kemet
● Creation of Monotheism
● Subduing of Asians
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Kemet & Africa Repeatedly are faced with invasion and foreign occupation.
● Hyksos Occupation1720 - 1600 BCE
● Assyrian Occupation~680 – 600 BCE
● Persian Occupation~525 – 343 BCE
● Greek Occupation~332 – 30BCE
● Roman/Byzantine Occupation
~30 - ~700 CE
● Arab Occupation~700 CE – present
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Freedom Fighters In Contemporary Africa
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European Invasion&
The Asante Song of Freedom
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Euro-Ashanti Wars
● 1820's – 1910's
● England, Portugal, Dutch involved.
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Nanny and the Akan-Carribean Maroons
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