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| 226818820 | Al-Maghrib | arabic term for "the west" | 0 | |
| 226818821 | Bantus | western aftrican peoples whose migration through Africa spread languages and iron-making | 1 | |
| 226818822 | Bard | professional storyteller, in the absence of a written language the bard is very important in preserving African traditions | 2 | |
| 226818823 | Berbers | pastoral people of North Africa, played a key role in trans-Saharan trade | 3 | |
| 226818824 | Coptic Christianity | Egyptian form of Christianity, popular in Ethiopia, focused on single nature of Jesus | 4 | |
| 226818825 | Hominids | first proto-humans | 5 | |
| 226818826 | Homo-Sapiens | immediate ancestors of man | 6 | |
| 226818827 | Khoisan | southern African language group characterized by the use of "clicking" sounds | 7 | |
| 226818828 | Lineage group | extended family unit or clan, key to African social system | 8 | |
| 226818829 | Mansa | west African title for a local Chieftain, as in Mansa Musa | 9 | |
| 226818830 | Matrilinear | lineage traced through the female line, as compared to patrilinear, common in some parts of Africa | 10 | |
| 226818831 | Nok Culture | in northern Nigeria, one of the most active early iron-working societies in Africa, artifacts from which date back as far as 500 B.C.E. | 11 | |
| 226818832 | Nuclear Family | a family group consisting only of father, mother, and children | 12 | |
| 226818833 | Pantheism | belief in a single creator god from whom all things come | 13 | |
| 226818834 | Polygyny/Polygamy | the state or practice of having more than one wife at a time | 14 | |
| 226818835 | Stateless societies | characterized by autonomous villages organized by clans and ruled by local chieftains | 15 | |
| 226818836 | Swahili | a mixed African-Arabian culture that developed by the twelfth century along the east coast of Africa | 16 | |
| 226818837 | Zanj | Arabic term for east Africa, mixed African-Arabic culture | 17 | |
| 226818838 | Zimbabwe | "sacred house" influential south African society, constructed Great Zimbabwe | 18 |
