Tribal+Nigeria+-+1800s+(9-2)

=Group: Tribal Nigeria in the 1800s= Describe the economy; religion and customs; family life; law; education; government structure; military

There are 250 ethnic groups, but there are three major tribes that are important.

The are three tribes in Nigeria. The Hausa, the Yoruba, and the Igbo. - The Hausa live primarily in the northern part of nigeria. They have settled there for thousands of years. - The Igbo are the largest trbial groups in Nigeria. They have been there since the 9th century. The Igbo village is based on agriculture. They would mostly grow yams, corn, vegetables, and fruit. The Igbo were mostly Christain or Muslim. They lived in small villages without a chiefs. The chiefs were mostly in the west and north of nigeria. For their military, they have Biafran soldiers. They were extremly deadly and had a biafran war in 1970. -The Yoruba started around the 7th or the 8th century. Later on in the 1830s, they became more powerful being Oyo in the grasslands. Yoruba spoke a numba of dialects of Kwa, a branch of Niger-Congo family of languages. Although an agricultural people, the Yoruba have always lived in towns. Ibadan was the largest city that was south of the Sahara in precoloniel Africa. Majority of Yoruba were farmers and farms can be up to 20 miles or 8 kilometers.