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| 4902216957 | Stateless Society (Segmentary) | African societies organized around kinship. A group of villages, based on ethnic loyalties made up a district . Village chiefs resolved district issues. | 0 | |
| 4902496195 | Chief | The head of the most prominent family who represented settlements as it dealt with neighboring settlements. | 1 | |
| 4902530408 | Bantu | 300-600 ethnic groups in Africa who speak Bantu languages. They inhabit a geographical area stretching east and southward from Central Africa across the African Great Lakes region down to Southern Africa. | 2 | |
| 4902511780 | Kingdom of Kongo | Near modern day Angola, this emerged as the most highly centralized Bantu kingdom and a prosperous trading kingdom. | 3 | |
| 4902366091 | Merchants | Brought Islam to sub-Saharan Africa over land along camel routes to west Africa and along sea lanes to east Africa. | 4 | |
| 4902366092 | Ghana | Started as a regional state in the 5th century, it exploded as a trading town in the 8th century as Muslim traders came and its capital city of Koumbi Saleh trade and taxes on gold. | 5 | |
| 4902370171 | Mali | Rule by the "lion prince," Sundiata, this kingdom included ancient Ghana, Niger, Senegal, others, and built a huge capital at Niana. | 6 | |
| 4902372480 | Sundiata | The lion prince who reigned Mali from 1230 to 1255 through acts of legendary bravery, he used his dominant cavalry to secure his kingdom. | 7 | |
| 4902374844 | Timbuktu | Along with Gao, and Jenne, a formidable market city in the Malian Empire. | 8 | |
| 4902376520 | Mansa Musa | The nephew of Sundiata who ruled Mali, and is legendary for his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324-1325 that spread wealth and ultimately Islam throughout his realm. | 9 | |
| 4902376521 | Songhay Empire | A successor state to Mali whose power had begun to wane that dominated the middle reaches of the Niger Valley with a capital at Gao. | 10 | |
| 4902441217 | Sunni Ali | Great Songhay leader with tactical military prowess who seized the traditional trading cities of Timbuktu and Jenne. | 11 | |
| 4902461800 | Savanna States | Characterized by the fusion of Islamic and pagan populations, and sometimes men and women mixed freely in market places and women did not go veiled. | 12 | |
| 4902383482 | New Swahili Culture | Created around the 10th century as as Islamic merchants began regular, sustained interaction with Indigenous Bantu people. | 13 | |
| 4902386377 | Ibn Battuta | Medieval Moroccan Muslim traveler and scholar, who is widely recognized as one of the greatest travelers of all time. | 14 | |
| 4902386378 | Kilwa | An impressive trade city along the east African coast. |  | 15 |
| 4902389158 | Zimbabwe | Central African kingdom which also was influenced by wealth from east Africa, which by the early 13th century had impressive stone complexes. | 16 | |
| 4902390891 | Age Sets | In smaller states and kin-based societies along with sex and gender expectations this often determined social positions and helped organize societies in a unique African tradition. | 17 | |
| 4902392077 | Slave Trading | A practice dating back to African antiquity that was usually the result of prisoners of war, debt, criminals or suspected witches. | 18 | |
| 4902393328 | Zanj Revolt | A major uprising against the Abbasid Caliphate which took place from 869 until 883 | 19 | |
| 4902729985 | Traditional African Religion | Tended to be monotheistic and tended to be more practical than theological with its focus on morality and ethics. | 20 | |
| 4902396357 | Divine Force | Recognized by most people as a male who was responsible for creating and sustaining life | 21 | |
| 4902396358 | Diviners | Intelligent men and sometimes women who understood their communities and sought to resolve problems through consulting oracles or prescribing medicines. | 22 | |
| 4902398199 | Alexandria | Early center of Christian learning in north Africa during the first century C.E. | 23 | |
| 4902400058 | St. Augustine of Hippo | Augustine of Hippo, also known as Saint Augustine, was an early Christian theologian and philosopher whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western | 24 | |
| 4902401053 | Rock Churches | Christianity spread in Ethiopia but often retained African influences such as this architecture suggests. |  | 25 |
| 4902414068 | Griot | West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet and/or musician. The griot is a repository of oral tradition and is often seen as a societal leader | 26 | |
| 4902414094 | Hausa | Peoples of northern Nigeria who formed states following the demise of the Songhay Empire that combined Muslim and pagan traditions. | 27 |
