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5648661434Bantu Migrations - Interactions Pg. 484Bantu speaking peoples undertook small-scale migrations and settled to build small communities and societies throughout Africa; helped spread agriculture in Africa0
5648663954Sundiata - Political Pg.491Sundiata Keita was a puissant prince and founder of the Mali Empire. The famous Malian ruler Mansa Musa who made a pilgrimage to Mecca was his grandnephew.1
5648663955Gold-Salt Trade - Economic Pg.488Camel caravans from North Africa carried bars of salt as well as cloth, tobacco, and metal tools across the Sahara to trading centers like Djenne and Timbuktu on the Niger River. Some items for which the salt was traded include gold, ivory, slaves, skins, kola nuts, pepper, and sugar2
5648664590Stateless Society - Political Pg.485a group of independent villages organized into clans and led by a local ruler or clan head without any central government3
5648664591Mansa Musa - Culture, Political Pg.491Ruler of Mali (r. 1312-1337). His extravagant pilgrimage through Egypt to Mecca in 1324-1325 established the empire's reputation for wealth in the Mediterranean world; wealthiest man in history4
5648664592Ibn Battuta - Culture Pg.495a Moroccan Muslim scholar and traveler. He is known for his traveling and going on excursions called the Rihla. His journeys lasted for a period of almost thirty years5
5648665254Kinship Groups - Social Pg.496extended families and clans that served as the main foundation of social and economic organization in small-scale agricultural societies; male heads of families jointly governed the village and organized the work of their own groups6
5648665255Creator God - Culture Pg.500extended families and clans that served as the main foundation of social and economic organization in small-scale agricultural societies; male heads of families jointly governed the village and organized the work of their own groups7
5648665960Age Groups - Social Pg.498African social distinctions determined by when you were born. People belonging to a certain group had certain expectations. The groups established ties transcending family or clan loyalties8
5648665961Zimbabwe - Poltical Pg.494A country of southern Africa. Various Bantu peoples migrated into the area during the first millennium, displacing the earlier San inhabitants9
5648666594Swahili States - Poltical Pg.493trading states along the east coast of Africa, the major Swahili city-states were Mogadishu, Barawa, Mombasa (Kenya), Gedi, Pate, Malindi, Zanzibar, Kilwa, and Sofala in the far south10

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