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| 246215958 | Stateless Societies | african societies organized around kinship or other forms of obligation and lacking the concentration of political power and authority associated with states | 0 | |
| 246215959 | Ifriqiya | the Arabic term for Eastern North Africa | 1 | |
| 246215960 | Maghrib | the Arabic term for western North Africa | 2 | |
| 246215961 | Almohadis | A reformist movement among the Islamic Berbers of northern Africa; later than the Almoravids; penetrated into sub-Sahara Africa. | 3 | |
| 246215962 | Ibn Batuta | Arab traveler who described African societies and cultures in his travel records | 4 | |
| 246215963 | Sundiata | a leader whose exploits were the foundation of a great oral tradition. created unified state & basic rules for malinke society | 5 | |
| 246215964 | Griots | Professional oral historians who served as keepers of traditions and advisors to kings within the Mali Empire | 6 | |
| 246215965 | Timbuktu | Commercial exchange flourished here Located on the flood plants of the bend of the Niger River | 7 | |
| 246215966 | Songhay | successor state to Mali; dominated Middle reaches of Niger Valley; capital at Gao; reached imperial status under Sunni Ali. | 8 | |
| 246215967 | Muhammad the Great | Muslim ruler who Extended the boundaries of the songyhay empire; Islamic rules of the 16th c. | 9 | |
| 246215968 | Hausa | West African people who lived in what is now Northern Nigeria after AD 1000 | 10 | |
| 246215969 | Sharia | Islamic law | 11 | |
| 246215970 | Zenj | Arabic term for the east African coast | 12 | |
| 246215971 | Benin | Large City-state in Yoruba | 13 | |
| 246215972 | Kongo | kingdom based on agriculture; formed on lower Kongo River; capital at Mbanza Kongo; ruled by hereditary monarchy | 14 | |
| 246215973 | Great Zimbabwe | Largest stone house site Center of Kingdom | 15 | |
| 246215974 | Juula | Malinke merchants; formed small partnerships to carry out trade throughout Mali empire; eventually spread throughout much of West Africa | 16 | |
| 246215975 | Bantu Migration | the movement of the bantu peoples southward throghout africa, spreading their language and culture, from around 500 b.c. to around A.D 1000 | 17 | |
| 246215976 | Ghana | African Empire in what is now eastern Senegal/Southwest Mali/ southern Mauritania prospelled becuse of being between Saharan caravans routes (1500 BCE-300CE) | 18 | |
| 246215977 | Hausa States | Feudal States in the west Sudan Formed by Hausa people later than in 8th-10th century | 19 | |
| 246215978 | Mani | Persian prophet who founded Manichaeism | 20 | |
| 246215979 | Matrilineal | Relating to/based on or trading descent through the material | 21 | |
| 246215980 | Yoruba | A Niger-Congo language of Southwest Nigeria and parts of Benin and Togo. Also meant people who were members of any of the Yoruba speaking natives | 22 | |
| 246215981 | Sahel | semiarid region south of the Sahara desert. Characterized by long dry seasons and short west seasons from July to September | 23 | |
| 246215982 | Jihad | a holy struggle or striving by a Muslim for a moral or spiritual or political goal | 24 | |
| 246215983 | Takrur | An ancient state of West Africa that flourished rougly to the Ghana empire | 25 | |
| 246215984 | Sunni Ali | 1st King of the Songhay empire. Helped extend the cover a great portion of the higher river area and controlled critical trading cities | 26 | |
| 246215985 | Demography | the statistical study of the human population with regard to its size, density, and other characteristics such as age, race, gender, and income | 27 | |
| 246215986 | Songhay | successor state to Mali; dominated middle reaches of Niger valley; formed as independent kingdom under a Berber dynasty; capital at Gao; reached imperial status under Sunni Ali | 28 | |
| 246215987 | Ethopia | A county of Northeast Africa, established around Aksum in the 1st-7th Century | 29 | |
| 246215988 | Nok | West Africa's earliest known culture; lived in what is now Nigeria; between 500 B.C. and A.D. 200; first people known to smelt iron; fashioned iron into tools for farming and weapons for hunting | 30 | |
| 246215989 | Axum | City in Northern Christian Kingdom of Ethopia | 31 | |
| 246215990 | Almoravids berber | Moroccan Muslim Dynasty foundation North Africa in the 12th Century | 32 |
