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| 2155464180 | Stateless Societies | Societies of varying sizes organized through kinship and lacking concentrated power | 0 | |
| 2155466694 | Maghrib | Arabic term for western North Africa | 1 | |
| 2155469544 | Almoravids | A puritanical Islamic reform movement among Berbers of northwest Africa | 2 | |
| 2155473200 | Almohads | A later puritanical Islamic reform movement among the Berbers of northwest Africa | 3 | |
| 2155476191 | Ethiopia | A Christian kingdom in the highlands of eastern africa | 4 | |
| 2155479905 | Lalibela | 13th century Ethiopian ruler who built great rock churches | 5 | |
| 2155484118 | Sahel | The extensive grassland belt at the southern edge of the Sahara | 6 | |
| 2155486699 | Sudanic states | States trading to North Africa and mixing Islamic and indigenous ways | 7 | |
| 2155490392 | Mali | State of the Malinke people, centered between Senegal and Niger rivers | 8 | |
| 2155493068 | Juula | Malinke merchants who traded throughout the Mali empire and west Africa | 9 | |
| 2155494353 | Mansa | Title of the ruler of Mali | 10 | |
| 2155495784 | Mansa Musa | Made a pilgrimage to Mecca and gave gold to all he saw | 11 | |
| 2155501934 | Ishak al-Sahili | An architect who returned with Mansa Musa to Mali | 12 | |
| 2155503793 | Sundiata | Created a unified state that became the Mali empire | 13 | |
| 2155505724 | Griots | Professional oral historians who preserved the ancient traditions | 14 | |
| 2155506970 | Timbuktu | Niger River port city of Mali | 15 | |
| 2155507911 | Songhay | Successor state to Mali | 16 | |
| 2155509983 | Muhammad the Great | Extended the boundaries of Songhay | 17 | |
| 2155511587 | Hausa states | States among the Hausa of Northern Nigeria | 18 | |
| 2155514497 | Zenji | Arabic term for the people and the coast of east Africa | 19 | |
| 2155517079 | East African trading ports | Urbanized commercial centers mixing African and Arab cultures | 20 | |
| 2155520958 | Ibn Batuta | Muslim traveler who recorded on African societies and cultures | 21 | |
| 2155522721 | Demographic transition | The change from slow to rapid population growth | 22 | |
| 2155524099 | Nok | Central Nigerian culture with highly developed art styles | 23 | |
| 2155525467 | Yoruba | Nigerian agricultural city states | 24 | |
| 2155526901 | Ile-Ife | Holiest Yoruba city | 25 | |
| 2155528233 | Benin | Nigerian city state that was famous for its bronze work | 26 | |
| 2155529802 | Luba | People in Katanga; king responsible for crop fertility | 27 | |
| 2155531689 | Kongo kingdoms | Large agricultural state on the lower Congo river | 28 | |
| 2155533336 | Zimbabwe | Central African royal stone courts | 29 | |
| 2155535377 | Great Zimbabwe | With massive stone buildings and walls | 30 | |
| 2155537191 | Mwene Mutapa | Ruler of Great Zimbabwe | 31 | |
| 2155563791 | Islamization | The spread of Islamic faith across the Middle East | 32 | |
| 2155570685 | Bantu migration | Group of people and associated language which originated in Nigeria | 33 | |
| 2155575147 | Ifriqiya | Term used by the Romans for Africa | 34 | |
| 2155578706 | Jihad | An Islamic term used for holy war waged to purify, spread, and protect the faith | 35 | |
| 2155583609 | Axum | Developing in the Ethiopian highlands and traded with India and the Mediterranean areas to gain Greek and Arabian cultural influences | 36 | |
| 2155586155 | Ghana | Territory in East African north of the Senegal and Niger rivers | 37 | |
| 2155590748 | Sunni Ali Ber | Ruler of Songhay who led forces to dominate the regions along the Niger river | 38 | |
| 2155591686 | Caliph | Term meaning supreme ruler | 39 | |
| 2155594560 | Matrilineal | Designating of kinship through the mother | 40 | |
| 2155597431 | Sharia | Codified Islamic law which is ethically based on the Qur'an and the Hadith | 41 |
