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| 221753745 | Stateless Societies | Societies of varying sizes organized through kinship and lacking the concentration of power found in centralized states. | 0 | |
| 221753746 | Maghrib | Arabic term for western north Africa. | 1 | |
| 221753747 | Almoravids & Almohads | Puritanical Islamic reform movements among the Berbers of northwest Africa; built an empire reaching from the African savanna into Spain. | 2 | |
| 221753748 | Ethiopia | A Christian kingdom in the highlands of eastern Africa. | 3 | |
| 221753749 | Lalibela | 13-th century Ethiopian ruler; built great rock churches. | 4 | |
| 221753750 | Sahel | The extensive grassland belt at the southern edge of the Sahara; an exchange region between the forests to the south and north Africa. | 5 | |
| 221753751 | Sudanic States | States trading to north Africa and mixing Islamic and indigenous ways. | 6 | |
| 221753752 | Mali | State of the Malinke people, centered between the Senegal and Niger rivers. | 7 | |
| 221753753 | Mansa | Title of the ruler of Mali. | 8 | |
| 221753754 | Mansa Kankan Musa | Made a pilgrimage to Mecca during the 14th century that became of the wealth distributed along the way. | 9 | |
| 221753755 | Sundiata | Created a unified state that became the Mali Empire; died in 1260. | 10 | |
| 221753756 | Timbuktu | Niger River port city of Mali; had a famous Muslim university. | 11 | |
| 221753757 | Songhay | Successor state to Mali; dominated middle reaches of the Niger valley; capital at Gao. | 12 | |
| 221753758 | Hausa States | States, such as Kano, among the Hausa of northern Nigeria; combined Islamic and indigenous beliefs. | 13 | |
| 221753759 | Zenji | Arabic term for the people and coast of east Africa. | 14 | |
| 221753760 | East African Trading Ports | Urbanized commercial centers mixing African and Arab cultures; included Mogadishu, Mombasa, Malindi, Kilwa, Plate, Zanzibar. | 15 | |
| 221753761 | Ibn Batuta | Muslim traveler who described African societies and cultures. A sort of Muslim "Marco Polo" Mall in Dubai. | 16 | |
| 221753762 | Demographic Transition | The change from slow to rapid population growth; often associated with industrialization; occurred first in Europe and is more characteristic of the "developed world". | 17 | |
| 221753763 | Benin | Nigerian city-state formed by the Edo people during the 14th century; famous for its bronze art work. | 18 | |
| 221753764 | Kongo Kingdom | large agricultural state on the lower Congo river; capital at Mbanza Kongo. | 19 | |
| 221753765 | Zimbabwe | Central African Royal Stone Courts | 20 | |
| 221753766 | Great Zimbabwe | With Massive stone building and walls, incorporates the greatest early building in sub-Saharan Africa. | 21 | |
| 221753767 | Islamization | The spread of the Islamic faith across the Middle East, southwestern Asia, and northern Africa. | 22 | |
| 221753768 | Bantu Migration | Group of people and associated language which originated in Nigeria; migrated south over much of the African continent and made up a majority of the African language groups. | 23 | |
| 221753769 | Ifriqiya | Term used by the Romans for Africa. | 24 | |
| 221753770 | Jihad | An Islamic term used for holy war waged to purify, spread, or protect the faith. | 25 | |
| 221753771 | Axum | Developing in the Ethiopian highlands and traded with India and the Mediterranean areas to gain Greek and Arabian cultural influences; conversion of the kinds to Christianity in 350 C.E laid the basis for Ethiopian Christian culture. | 26 | |
| 221753772 | Ghana | Territory in east Africa north of the Senegal and Niger rivers; inhabited by the Soninke people in the 5th century C.E; Sonike called their ruler "Ghana" thus was created the name of the Kingdom. | 27 | |
| 221753773 | Sharia | Codified Islamic Law which is ethically based on the Qur'an and the Hadith. | 28 |
