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109312913 | Stateless Societies | Organized around kinship, and lacked the concentration of political power. Some were larger and more extensive than neighbor states. | 0 | |
109312914 | Ifriqiya | What Romans called Africa | 1 | |
109312915 | Maghrib | Lands in Western Africa. | 2 | |
109312916 | Almohadis | Reformist group. Essential to the penetration of Islam. | 3 | |
109312917 | Juula | Malinke merchants | 4 | |
109312918 | Sundiata | Leaders whose exploits were celebrated in oral traditions. | 5 | |
109312919 | Griots | Professional oral historians. Keepers of tradition. | 6 | |
109312920 | Ibn Batuta | Arab Traveler. | 7 | |
109312921 | Timbuktu | Commercial exchange flourished here. Located on the flood plains on the bend of the Niger River. | 8 | |
109312922 | Songhay | People dominated the areas of the Niger Valley. This area was traditionally made up of farmers. | 9 | |
109312923 | Muhammad the Great | Mulsim ruler who extended the boundaries so that Songhay dominated central Sudan. | 10 | |
109312924 | Hausa | People of Northern Nigera | 11 | |
109312925 | Sharia | Islamic Law. | 12 | |
109312926 | Zenj | Arabic term for east African coast. | 13 | |
109312927 | Benin | Large city-state in Yoruba | 14 | |
109312928 | Kongo | formed on the lower Congo River in the 15th century. | 15 | |
109312929 | Great Zimbabwe | Largest stone house site. Center of the Kingdom. | 16 |