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| 5431536254 | Ifriqiya | the ancient Roman term for Africa | 0 | |
| 5431537748 | juula | Malinke merchants that formed partnerships to carry out trade throughout the Ghana Mali area | 1 | |
| 5431548009 | emir/caliph | an Islamic title use by ruling families to reinforce their authority | 2 | |
| 5431555283 | Benin | a large city-state of the Edo peoples that controlled land from the Niger River to the coast beginning in the 14th century | 3 | |
| 5431629976 | Almohadis | a later reformist group that aided the penetration of Islam into sub-Saharan Africa. | 4 | |
| 5431629977 | Demographic transition | a shift to low birth rate, low infant death rate, and stabilized population | 5 | |
| 5431631626 | Great Zimbabwe | the largest of several stone settlement complexes in southeastern Africa that served as that kingdom's royal court | 6 | |
| 5431631627 | Stateless societies | power organized around kinship or other forms of obligation | 7 | |
| 5431631628 | Mali | an empire created by the Malinke people centered between the Senegal and Niger Rivers | 8 | |
| 5431633973 | griots | professional oral historians who served as the keepers of tradition | 9 | |
| 5431633974 | Muhammad the Great | Muslim ruler who extended the boundaries of the Songhay Kingdom to dominate the central Sudan | 10 | |
| 5431633975 | Demography | the study of populations | 11 | |
| 5431637305 | Yoruba | agricultural society in 12th century Nigeria supported by peasantry and dominated by a ruling family and aristocracy | 12 | |
| 5431637306 | Maghrib | Arab term for lands to the west in North Africa | 13 | |
| 5431637307 | Sudanic states | several kingdoms that arose during the height of Ghana's power | 14 | |
| 5431639631 | Timbuktu | one of the great "port cities" on the Niger River, it had a population of 50,000 by the 14th century | 15 | |
| 5431639632 | Nok | a forested area of central Nigeria where realistic and highly stylized terra-cotta art objects dating to 500 BCE have been found | 16 | |
| 5431639633 | Kongo | kingdom on the lower Congo River that was flourishing by the 15th century | 17 | |
| 5431641534 | Almoravids | followers of an 11th century puritanical reform among the desert Barbers of the Western Sahara | 18 | |
| 5431641535 | sahel | an extensive grassland belt at the southern edge of the Sahara | 19 | |
| 5431643569 | Sundiata | Malinke leader to whom the great Malinke expansion is attributed | 20 | |
| 5431643570 | Songhay | the successor state to Mali, it dominated the middle areas of the Niger Valley | 21 | |
| 5431645946 | Hausa | people of northern Nigeria that combined Muslim and pagan traditions | 22 | |
| 5431645947 | Sharia | Islamic law that emphasized patrilineal customs | 23 | |
| 5431648742 | Ibn Batuta | an Arab traveler who documented African society and culture | 24 | |
| 5431648743 | Zenj | an Arabic term for the east African coast | 25 |
