States and societies of Sub-Saharan Africa
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| 7867042440 | Bantu | The people who spread throughout Africa spreading agriculture, language, and iron. migrations, expansion, and establishments lead to changes in relationships with foraging people. The poorest people joined cultivators in Bantu society, others became forest specialist. | 0 | |
| 7867042441 | Kin - based societies | Small scale community. No land ownership which meant no need to protect or take others. Stateless/segmentary society. No elaborate hierarchy of officials or a bureaucratic apparatus to administer affairs. Little to no government. Government through family and kinship groups | 1 | |
| 7867042442 | Kingdom of Kongo | the most tightly centralized kingdom. Bason of the Congo (Zaire) river. Conglomeration of several village alliances. Participated actively in trade networks. Most centralized rule of the early Bantu kingdoms. Later undermined by Portuguese sleep traders. | 2 | |
| 7867042443 | Camels | Quicken the pace of communication and transport across the Sahara. From Arabia to Egypt, and Sudan to north Africa. Replaced horses and donkeys. Helped spread Islam. | 3 | |
| 7867042444 | Kingdom of Ghana | Principles state of west Africa at the time of the Muslims arrival. Between single and Niger river, Mali and Mauritania. Not related to modern state of Ghana. Protection against camel-driving Raiders. Center of African gold trade. Imported from south to Ghana. Sold ivory and slaves. Exchanged horses, cloth, and salt. | 4 | |
| 7867042445 | Trans - Saharan trade | Networks that brought enormous wealth in considerable power to Ghana. | 5 | |
| 7867042446 | Mali empire | Political leadership in west Africa fell to this powerful empire, which emerge just as the kingdom of Ghana dissolved. Benefited from the train Saharan trade. | 6 | |
| 7867042447 | Timbuktu | Market city on the caravan route. Prosperous centers featuring buildings of brick and stone. | 7 | |
| 7867042448 | Mansa Musa | Highest point of trade and empire. I deserved Islam by making a Haji: had a big caravan with lots of soldiers, attendance, subjects, slaves, and camels with God. This year we didn't so much Gold that metal value decline by 25%. | 8 | |
| 7867042449 | Swahili | Coastal city. Engage in trade along east African pissed. They had the Bantu language with words and ideas from Arabic. Similar patterns of development with respect to language, religion, architecture, and technology. It's fact it is Lanik merchants. Developed city states and the agriculture move from what flash mud to coral, stone. Chinese silk, porcelain imported. | 9 | |
| 7867042450 | Kilwa | City - state on East African coast. Fishing, Limited trade. Turn to agriculture increase trade in pottery in stoneware. Major trading center: exported over a ton of gold per year. | 10 | |
| 7867042451 | Zimbabwe | Dwelling of the chief. Stone complex called great Zimbabwe that indicated an increasingly complex and well organized society. Manage trade between internal and coastal regions. City of stone towers, palaces, and public buildings that served as a capital. | 11 | |
| 7867042452 | Age grades | All individuals within a given community born within a few years of one another. Performs path appropriate for their level of development. Bonded to one another, political allies. If that were so cool ties but cross the lines of family and kinship. | 12 | |
| 7867042453 | Zanj Revolt | Black slaves from the Swahili coast led by Ali bin Muhammad attacked the Basra, and important city of Mesopotamia. Although they lost, it clearly demonstrated that African slavery was a prominent feature of Muslim society. | 13 | |
| 7867042454 | Islamic slave trade | Hi demand of African slaves created network throughout Africa that supplied slaves and served as a foundation for the Atlantic slave trade. | 14 | |
| 7867042455 | Axum | Trading center. First axumites converts merchants, then king. Isolated during the Islamic period, Renaissance later. Independent development. Strong African influence. Spirit world: amulet. | 15 | |
| 7867042456 | Ibn Rushd | His hers in Muslims when visiting Mali paid no attention to his lectures about proper behavior and dress of women in Islam. | 16 |
