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| 298707270 | stateless societies | societies of varying sizes organized through kinship and lacking the concentration of power found in centralized states | 0 | |
| 298707271 | Maghrib | Arabic term for western north Africa | 1 | |
| 298707272 | Almoravids | a puritanical islamic reform movement among the Berbers of northwestern Africa; built an empire reaching from northwestern Africa to Spain | 2 | |
| 298707273 | Almohads | A later puritanical Islamic reform movement among the Berbers of NW Africa; also built an empire reaching from the African savanna into Spain | 3 | |
| 298707274 | Ethiopia | a Christian kingdom int he highlands of Eastern Africa | 4 | |
| 298707275 | Lalibela | 13th cent Ethiopian ruler; built great rock churches | 5 | |
| 298707276 | Sahel | the extensive grassland belt at the southern edge of the Sahara; an exchange region between the forests to the south and North Africa | 6 | |
| 298707277 | Sudanic States | states trading to North Africa and mixing Islamic views with indigenous | 7 | |
| 298707278 | Mali | state of the Malinke centered between the Senegal and Niger rivers | 8 | |
| 298707279 | juula | Malinke merchants who traded throughout the Mali empire and Western Africa | 9 | |
| 298707280 | Mansa | title of the ruler of Mali | 10 | |
| 298707281 | Kankan Musa | made a pilgrimage to Mecca during the 14th cent that became legendary because of the wealth distributed along the way | 11 | |
| 298707282 | Ishak al-Sahili | an architect who returned with Kankan Musa to Mali; created a distinctive Sudanic architecture utilizing beaten clay | 12 | |
| 298707283 | Sundiata | created a unified state that became the Mali Empire; died 1260 | 13 | |
| 298707284 | griots | professional oral historians who served as keepers of traditions and advisors to kings | 14 | |
| 298707285 | Timbuktu | Niger River port city of Mali; had famous Muslim university | 15 | |
| 298707286 | Songhay | successor state to Mali; dominated middle reaches of the Niger Valley; capitol at Gao | 16 | |
| 298707287 | Hausa States | states, such as Kano, among the Hausa of Northern Nigeria; combined Islamic and indigenous beliefs | 17 | |
| 298707288 | Zanj | Arabic term for the people and coast of East Africa | 18 | |
| 298707289 | East African Trading Ports | urbanized commercial centers mixing African and Arab cultures; included Mogadishu, Mombasa, Malindi, Kilwa, Pate, Zanzibar | 19 | |
| 298707290 | Ibn Batutu | Muslim traveler who described African societies and cultures | 20 | |
| 298707291 | Demographic transition | The change from slow to rapid population growth; often associated with industrialization; occurred first in Europe and is more characteristic of the "developed world.". | 21 | |
| 298707292 | Yoruba | highly urbanized Nigerian agriculturists organized into small city-states, as Oyo, under the authority of regional divine kings presiding over elaborate courts. | 22 | |
| 298707293 | Benin | Nigerian city-state formed by the Edo people during the 14th century; famous for its bronze art work. | 23 | |
| 298707294 | Kongo Kingdom | Large agricultural state on the lower Congo River; capital at Mbanza Kongo. | 24 | |
| 298707295 | Zimbabwe | Central African royal stone courts. | 25 | |
| 298707296 | Great Zimbabwe | With massive stone buildings and walls, incorporates the greatest earlybuildings in sub-Saharan Africa. | 26 | |
| 298707297 | Mwene Mutapa | ruler of Great Zimbabwe; controlled a large territory reaching to the Indian Ocean | 27 |
