{"id":7863,"date":"2013-09-06T23:30:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T23:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/?page_id=7863"},"modified":"2025-12-12T08:56:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:56:29","slug":"african-kingdoms-the-nok-culture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/african-kingdoms-the-nok-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"African Kingdoms: The Nok Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>African Kingdoms: The Nok Culture<\/h1>\n<p>During the African Iron Age, the Nok culture was established as one of the more successful cultures, thanks to their ironworking technology. Because they were so skilled in working with iron, they were able to develop advanced farming tools which gave them a surplus of crops. This allowed them to have more free time to develop urban areas and create more things out of iron, such as weapons and artistic pieces. These advanced weapons helped protect the Nok urbanization that was occurring during this time. The artistic culture that the Nok were developing quickly spread among the neighboring areas and pieces matching the Nok style of art have shown up in the surrounding areas.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper fourthree\" title=\"African Kingdoms: The Nok Culture\" style=\"width:420px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_ZsjbplDj5OY\"><div id=\"lyte_ZsjbplDj5OY\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FZsjbplDj5OY%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\">African Kingdoms: The Nok Culture<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZsjbplDj5OY\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FZsjbplDj5OY%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"African Kingdoms: The Nok Culture\" width=\"420\" height=\"295\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:420px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African Kingdoms: The Nok Culture During the African Iron Age, the Nok culture was established as one of the more successful cultures, thanks to their ironworking technology. Because they were so skilled in working with iron, they were able to develop advanced farming tools which gave them a surplus of crops. This allowed them to &#8230; <a title=\"African Kingdoms: The Nok Culture\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/african-kingdoms-the-nok-culture\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about African Kingdoms: The Nok Culture\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-7863","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"page_type-video","6":"page_domain-social-studies"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7863"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281660,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7863\/revisions\/281660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}