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| 7647424276 | Mansa Musa | Meccan King, crossed Sahara | 0 | |
| 7647426618 | Hajj | Pilgrimage to Mecca | 1 | |
| 7647432501 | Effects of Islam | Trade + long-distance commerce | 2 | |
| 7647442289 | State-building (Mali, Songhay) | Military power, not ethic/cultural unity | 3 | |
| 7647450256 | African societies | Diverse - centralized states, stateless societies | 4 | |
| 7647458987 | Stateless societies | Kinship, family council | 5 | |
| 7647884628 | Stateless societies vs. states | Lacking political power + authority | 6 | |
| 7647481550 | Bantu people | Invented main African language | 7 | |
| 7647485299 | Animistic religion | Soul/spirit in anything | 8 | |
| 7647520042 | African economies | Specialization, merchants controlled trade | 9 | |
| 7647529569 | Cyrene, Carthage | Trading centers | 10 | |
| 7647537711 | Ifriqiya | Roman word for Africa | 11 | |
| 7647540458 | Almoravids and Almohadis | Reformist groups, launched jihad | 12 | |
| 7647545619 | Jihad | Holy war to protect faith | 13 | |
| 7647549250 | Benefits of Islam | Believer equality, reinforced Arab kings' authority | 14 | |
| 7647571278 | Christian kingdoms in Africa | Nubia and Ethiopia | 15 | |
| 7647581372 | Axum | Ethiopian kingdom, Christian outpost | 16 | |
| 7647588884 | Africa coasts of contact | Atlantic, Indian Ocean, savanna on edge of Sahara | 17 | |
| 7647596914 | Ghana | First known kingdom in sub-Saharan West Africa (790-1240) | 18 | |
| 7647605081 | Ghana trade | Exchanged gold for salt/dates from Sahara | 19 | |
| 7647611266 | Sudanic kingdoms | Takrur, Gao | 20 | |
| 7647613610 | Similarites of Sudanic states | Patriarch/council of elders, had conquest states | 21 | |
| 7647889654 | Copts | Christian sect of Egypt, preferred Islam to Byzantines | 22 | |
| 7647897175 | Sundiata | Founded Mali empire, great leader, "Lion Prince" | 23 | |
| 7647906643 | Juula | Malinke merchants, carried out trade throughout Mali empire | 24 | |
| 7647916450 | Griots | Keepers of traditions and advisors to Mali kings | 25 | |
| 7647921251 | Ibn Batuta | Arab traveler, described African cultures + societies | 26 | |
| 7647929545 | Timbuktu | Niger River city, major part of trans-Saharan trade + Islamic learning center | 27 | |
| 7647942093 | Sharia | Islamic code of law from Koran and Mohammed | 28 | |
| 7647949059 | Zanj | Arabic term for East African coast | 29 | |
| 7647953961 | Great Zimbabwe | Trading center + state capital between 1250-1450 | 30 | |
| 7647984382 | Nok | West Africa's earliest known culture, pre-Nigeria | 31 | |
| 7647996813 | Characteristics of Nok | First people to smelt iron, realistic + highly stylized terra-cotta objects | 32 | |
| 7648008463 | Kongo | Founded in 13th century, flourishing by 15th | 33 | |
| 7648014539 | Characteristics of Kongo | Agriculture-based, hereditary monarchy ruled | 34 | |
| 7648022618 | Secret societies | West african societies, initiated boys and girls into adulthood | 35 | |
| 7648032070 | Swahili | Bantu language with Arabic words | 36 | |
| 7648035509 | Bantu | Migrated through central + southern Africa | 37 | |
| 7648043182 | Kingdoms of the Grasslands | Ghana, Songhay, Mali | 38 | |
| 7648059750 | Mali Empire | Strong West African empire from 1240-1500 | 39 | |
| 7648067995 | Mali Empire characteristics | Many mosques and universities, gold-salt trade | 40 | |
| 7648079053 | Fall of Mali Empire | Lack of strong rulers who could govern well | 41 | |
| 7648105990 | Songhay | Succeeded Mali; controlled middle reaches of Niger valley | 42 | |
| 7648111299 | Songhay origins | Originally independent kingdom under Berber dynasty; capital at Gao; reached imperial status under Sunni Ali | 43 | |
| 7648122103 | Songhay trade products | Gold and salt (almost equal in value) | 44 | |
| 7648139860 | Mwene Mutapa | King of Great Zimbabwe, made rapid expansion | 45 | |
| 7648148102 | Successes of Mwene Mutapa | Dominated over sources of gold, exported textiles and impressed Europeans with iron weapons | 46 |
