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| 297865153 | Stateless societies | organized around kinship, lack of political organization and authority, clan councils, no taxes | 0 | |
| 297865154 | Bantu | common language in Northwest and South Africa | 1 | |
| 297865155 | Yoruba | common polytheistic animistic religion in NW and S africa, shared cosmology, ancestor worship, connection to land and nature, creator deity | 2 | |
| 297865156 | Agriculture and metalworks | common element in Africa | 3 | |
| 297865157 | Spread of Islam | Egypt to Morocco, brings stability | 4 | |
| 297865158 | Berbers | people who lived in NW Africa | 5 | |
| 297865159 | AlmoraVids | Puritanical Islamic reformers, waged jihads to spread faith in W and S Africa | 6 | |
| 297865160 | Almohadis | Puritanical Islamic reformers, not as violent | 7 | |
| 297865161 | Jihad | "internal struggle", holy war | 8 | |
| 297865162 | Coptic Christians | Christians in Egypt, split from Byzantium and became dhimmi | 9 | |
| 297865163 | Sahel | grassland belt at S edge of Sahara | 10 | |
| 297865164 | Growth of trade villages | Exchange between N and S, taxes, tribute, military support | 11 | |
| 297865165 | Rulers adopt Islam, peasants don't | recurring in Africa, caused social differences | 12 | |
| 297865166 | Sundiata | the "Lion Prince", made simple laws for society and government, Mansa=Emperor | 13 | |
| 297865167 | Mali | Sudanic state ruled by Sundiata and successors | 14 | |
| 297865168 | Malike people | Islamic people in Mali | 15 | |
| 297865169 | Sundiata's successors | expands borders and trade, lavish royal court | 16 | |
| 297865170 | Mansa Musa | Brings attention to wealth of W africa from hajj, brings Islamic poetry and architecture, turns Mali into a mini-Mecca | 17 | |
| 297865171 | Timbuktu and Jenne | two largest trading cities on Niger river, commercial and craft specialists | 18 | |
| 297865172 | Songhay | kingdom from ashes of Mali, Niger River Valley, "masters of soil and water" | 19 | |
| 297865173 | Gao | Songhay capital on Niger | 20 | |
| 297865174 | Askia | military leader, expanded like Rome | 21 | |
| 297865175 | Gold | In abundance in Sudanic states, important for production | 22 | |
| 297865176 | Slave trade | Servants, concubines, laborers exported | 23 | |
| 297865177 | Zenj | East African sea coast | 24 | |
| 297865178 | Swahili | common language E africa | 25 | |
| 297865179 | Islam in Swahili | ethics, trade contacts, kept from general population | 26 | |
| 297865180 | Sea trading | Swahili trade, with Madagascar, bananas, coconuts | 27 | |
| 297865181 | Wealthy trade cities | Zanzibar, Mambasa, Malindi, Kilwa, Mogadishu, Pate | 28 | |
| 297865182 | Portuguese invasion | raids swahili coasts, establishes forts and posts, congrols gold and trade | 29 | |
| 297865183 | Interior society | People of forests and plains, had agriculture, herding, and ironwork | 30 | |
| 297865184 | Nok | Yoruba city-state in central Nigeria, regional kings, artistic | 31 | |
| 297865185 | Benin | 14th Century city-state, Niger river, Oba, artistic | 32 | |
| 297865186 | Kongo | Kingdom on lower Congo River | 33 | |
| 297865187 | Trades of Kongo | Agriculture, weaving, poetry, blacksmithing, wood carving | 34 | |
| 297865188 | Women in Kongo | cultivated agriculture, takes care of households and animals | 35 | |
| 297865189 | Mbanza Kongo | Capital of Kongo | 36 | |
| 297865190 | Shona | Language of Kongo | 37 | |
| 297865191 | City of Great Zimbabwe | center of Kongo | 38 | |
| 297865192 | King Mwene Mutapa | end of 15th century, rapid expansion for Kongo | 39 | |
| 298752529 | Sharia | Islamic law | 40 |
