King Saud The Connection of The African Continent to The Wider World Paper

The short paper should be written in Chicago style.

The short paper will be a 5 page paper that uses our class texts in order to answer the question, “Both Martin Bernal and Hugh Trevor Roper have demonstrated that Western audiences have interpreted Africa through a lens of inferiority to the West. Rather than isolated, how was the African continent connected to the wider world in the periods we’ve studied so far? What are the Western investments in the idea of Africa as isolated?”
What we studied so far is:
Parker and Rathbone, African History: A Very Short Introduction, Chapter 1-3
Parker and Rathbone, African History: A Very Short Introduction, Chapter 4-7
Reynolds and Gilbert, Africa in World History, preface
Reynolds and Gilbert, Africa in World History, Chapters 1-2
Collins and Burns, History of Sub-Saharan Africa, p. 40-63 (not available)
Elizabeth Isichei, A History of African Societies, p. 78-100
Reynolds and Gilbert, Africa in World History, Chapter 3-4
Ancient History Sourcebook, Accounts of Ancient Meroe, Axum, and Kush:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/nubia1.asp
Collins and Burns, History of Sub-Saharan Africa, p. 64-78 (not available)
John Iliffe, Africans: History of A Continent, p. 27-37
Selections from Martin Bernal, Black Athena
Herodian discusses the African emperor Septimius Severus:http://www.livius.org/sources/content/herodian-s-roman-history/herodian-2.9/?
John Iliffe, Africans: History of A Continent, p. 38-42
Reynolds and Gilbert, Africa in World History, Chapter 5

The resources to use:
Africa in world history 2nd edition Chapter 1 to Chapter 5. (This resource should be used!)
can be found on archive org:
https://archive.org/details/africainworldhis00gilb
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The resources should be one of the listed above.
The other resources are attached.